A former aide to President Muhammadu Buhari on National Assembly Matters, Suleiman Kawu Sumaila has advised the Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to investigate the circumstances that led to the party’s loss of Sumaila/Takai Federal Constituency at the elections tribunal on Friday.
The elections petition tribunal sitting in Kano on Friday ruled that the APC did not have a candidate for Sumaila/Takai Constituency during the National Assembly polls which held in February.
The tribunal, which based its verdict on the Supreme Court judgment that affirmed Shamsuddeen Dambazau as the APC candidate for the seat against Kawu, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately issue a certificate of return to the candidate of the political party with the next highest votes.
Kawu, who was the original candidate for the seat until Dambazau’s suit challenging his candidature, said in a statement on Friday that the APC national leadership should constitute a special panel to probe members who worked against the interest of the party which culminated in the loss.
It would be recalled that Kawu was picked as the consensus candidate for Sumaila/Takai Federal Constituency, where he went into the elections and won with wide margin.
