Additionally, it is urged that the Supreme Court issue a directive directing the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare Abacha the legitimate PDP candidate in Kano for the upcoming governorship election.
The eldest surviving son of the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, Mohammed Abacha, included these requests in two notices of appeal he filed with the Supreme Court.
Abacha claimed in two notices of appeal filed by his attorney Dr. Reuben Atabo (SAN) that the Federal High Court in Kano erred in law when it overturned an earlier decision that recognized him as the legitimate PDP candidate in the state.
In his lawsuit filed at the Federal High Court in Kano, Abacha claimed that Sadiq Aminu Wali had been incorrectly substituted for him as the winner of the only PDP governorship primary that had been held in Kano State.
The decision was contested by Wali and the PDP in separate appeals before the Court of Appeal, Kano. On December 22, 2023, Justice Abdullahi Liman of the Federal High Court, Kano ruled in Abacha's favor and ordered INEC to recognize him as the PDP governorship candidate in Kano State.
Abacha has now appealed the Court of Appeal's decision to the Supreme Court after it overturned the decision of the Federal High Court in its judgments on both appeals on February 10 of this year and determined, among other things, that Wali was the legitimate candidate.
Abacha requests that the Supreme Court reverse the decision of the Court of Appeal and uphold the ruling of the Federal High Court in equal measure in his two notices of appeal, each of which contains 31 grounds.