Senator representing Kogi West senatorial district, Senator Smart Adeyemi, a son of former Kogi State governor, Shuaibu Abubakar and three others have demanded immediate cancellation of the just concluded All Progressives Congress (APC) primary for the selection of the party’s candidate in the forthcoming governorship election.
Meanwhile, the plaintiffs in an interview with journalists at the Federal High Court in Abuja, where the suits were filed called on President Muhammadu Buhari, the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, vice president-elect, Senator kashim Shettima and the Arewa Consultative Forum to intervene in order to save democracy in Kogi State.
In the suits marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/556/2023 and FHC/ABJ/ CS/557/2023, filed by Senator Adeyemi and Abubakar respectively, the plaintiffs are asking the court to declare as illegal, unlawful and invalid the purported direct primary election said to have been conducted by APC and which produced Ahmed Usman Ododo as the governorship candidate of the APC ahead of the November election.
The grouse of the aggrieved governorship aspirants was that the alleged unlawful selection of Ododo ran foul of Section 177 of the 1999 Constitution and Section 29 and 84 of the Electoral Act as well as Article 20 of the APC’s Constitution.
