Nigeria 2011 election - A Federal High Court in Abuja has affirmed, Alhaji Muhammed Sani Abacha, son of late military Head of State, Gen. Sani Abcaha, as the governorship candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) for Kano State. Immediately the news got to Kano , hundreds of CPC supporters loyal to Abacha stormed the streets, especially around Nassarawa GRA, where Abacha's residence and the campaign office are located, to felicitate with him.

The court ordered CPC to remove from its document, the name of General Ja'faru Lawal Isa as the winner of the January 12, 2011 governorship primary election because he scored the second highest votes in the said election.

Delivering judgment in a suit filed by Abacha challenging the refusal of the party to submit his name to INEC having won majority of the votes cast at the primary, Justice Gabriel Kolawole said Isa should stop parading himself as candidate and from campaigning for the governorship election.

The judge also warned that Isa risked being sent to jail if he did anything against the judgment especially if he paraded himself as CPC candidate and campaigned for the general elections.

The court condemned the action of the CPC for fraudulently forwarding a loser's name to INEC as its candidate for the April polls even when a clear winner emerged at the primary election conducted in line with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2010.

The court upheld the primary election result in which Muhammed Abacha scored 144,066, Gen. Ja'faru Isa - 78, 671, Senator Sani Hangar - 45,681, Anwalu Anwar -30,410 and Magaji Abdulahi - 5,759.

Ibrahim Shuaibu

This Day/05/03/2011