PDP, LPWant Adamawa By-election Nullified

Candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP) person challenged the precocious conducted Ganye State Constituency by-election successful Adamawa State astatine the Election Petitions Tribunal, asking for its nullification.

The Independent National Electoral Commission had declared the campaigner of the absorption All Progressives Congress (APC), Misa Musa, arsenic the victor of the election.

Buba Joda of the PDP and LP’s Benjamin Brandford, told the tribunal that the predetermination did not comply with the Electoral Act and prayed the tribunal to nullify the exercise.

In his abstracted petition filed connected the  September 6, 2025, Buba done his Counsel, L. N. Nzadon joined Hon. Musa, APC arsenic good arsenic INEC arsenic 1st, 2nd and 3rd respondents.

Hon. Buba, prayed the tribunal to state that the instrumentality of Hon. Misa Musa arsenic subordinate representing Ganye Constituency successful the bye-election held connected August 16, 2025, was invalid by crushed of non compliance with the provisions of sections 51(2) and (3) of the Electoral Act, 2022.

The petitioner urged the tribunal to bid Hon. Misa Musa to instrumentality the certificate of instrumentality issued to him by the electoral assemblage arsenic victor of the bye-election.

Equally, helium appealed to the tribunal to bid for a re-run predetermination astatine 5 polling units wherever the workout was characterised by implicit voting and different electoral malpractices.

Likewise, successful his petition, the campaigner of the LP, Hon. Brandford, who polled 68 votes only, alleged that the predetermination was invalid crossed the constituency for non- compliance with the Electoral Act, Manuals for Election Officials and Regulations and Guidelines for the behaviour of the elections.

The petitioner and his enactment joined Hon. Misa Musa, APC, Hon. Buba Mohammed Joda, PDP and INEC arsenic 1st to 5th respondents successful his petition marked: EPT/AD/SHA/01/25.

Hon. Benjamin, done his Counsel, Samson Bukar, averred that the votes formed astatine immoderate polling units exceeded the authentic fig of accredited voters due to the fact that according to him, immoderate voters voted much than once.

According to him, the cause of the 5th responsive arrived for the predetermination astatine galore polling units precocious and declared voting closed adjacent erstwhile intending voters were inactive successful queue and waiting patiently to workout their franchise.

He further alleged that the cause of the 5th responsive cancelled and altered results to conceal implicit voting and manipulated it successful favour of the 1st responsive and his governmental party.

Hon. Benjamin appealed to the tribunal to nullify the declaration and instrumentality of the lawmaker by INEC arsenic victor of the predetermination for non compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act, insisting that the non compliance substantially affected the effect of the exercise.