Kebbi LG poll: CPC wants tribunal to disqualify PDP candidates

 by Ismail Mudashir

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The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Kebbi State says it has filed petitions asking the state local government election tribunal to disqualify the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who were declared winners of the September 15 local government election by the state’s independent electoral commission over lack of qualification.

PDP won all the 21 local government chairmanship seats and 221 councillorship seats while, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) won only four councillorship seats in the last local government election in the state.

Secretary of CPC in Kebbi state, Barrister Shehu Marshal in a telephone interview said his party has filed petitions asking the election tribunal to declare the CPC candidate as winners.

“The PDP candidates declared as winners for Zuru, Koko Besse and Maiyama local government area chairmanship positions by the Kebbi State independent electoral commission are not qualified. They don’t have the required qualification to man the seats,” he said.

He said his party is making arrangements to file petitions to challenge the PDP candidate for Yauri local government area who he said was not qualified to chair the local government area.

“We are not stopping here because the election was marred by irregularities and we are going to challenge all the seats,” he said.

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