The governing All Progressives Congress (APC) has faced a new challenge since winning the elections on March 18.
Sa’idu Umar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the March 18 gubernatorial election, has lined up thirty-one (31) witnesses to challenge the election results of Governor Ahmad Aliyu of the APC and his running mate, Idris Gobir.
PDP contests the APC’s win in Sokoto
On Thursday, June 22, according to PM News, Umar said this in the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Sokoto.
During the election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Sokoto’s acting head of ICT Sabon Birni, Model Primary School’s headteacher Ibrahim Abdullahi, Abubakar Usman, and PDP poll workers were among the witnesses.
Judge Haruna Mshelia, the tribunal’s chairman, asked individuals to respect the public interest and the rule of law at the reopened session on Thursday.
Mshelia commented in response to Sunday Ameh, lead counsel for the PDP, who asked the tribunal to take judicial notice of an alleged danger to the lives of some of the witnesses the petitioners had summoned.
The judge said that Sokoto State had a structured society with people who were respected for their morals.
Northern APC Governor goes unnoticed and travels on a bike to see a filthy public hospital.
On Monday, June 19, Sokoto State Governor Ahmad Aliyu unexpectedly visited the Sokoto Specialist Hospital to evaluate the quality of the facility’s services.
The governor’s press secretary, Malam Abubakar Bawa, acknowledged this incident in a Sokoto-issued statement.
Bawa said that the governor’s choice to pay an unscheduled visit to the clinic resulted from several complaints made by state residents about the clinic’s subpar service.
Within 20 days after taking office, new state governors made important choices about demolition, the ban on home rest, and other issues.
Several governors immediately made bold choices after taking office on Monday, May 29.
During their first 20 days in office, the governors of Plateau State’s Caleb Mutfwang, Benue’s Hyacinth Alia, and Sokoto’s Ahmad Aliyu have annulled appointments made by the previous regimes.
Governor Bassey Otu of the state of Cross River ordered the verification of the government workers based there.
