2027: Court Hears Suit against Donald Duke’s Emergence as PRP Presidential Candidate Today
Alex Enumah in Abuja
Justice Mohammed Umar of a Federal High Court, Abuja, will today, begin hearing in a suit challenging the emergence of former Cross River Governor, Donald Duke as presidential candidate of the People’s Redemption Party (PRP) for the 2027 general election.
The suit brought by an aggrieved aspirant, Yakubu Muhammed Kingsley, and filed by his lawyer, D.A. Sulyman, has the PRP, Duke and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as 1st to 3rd defendants respectively.
The plaintiff in the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1234/2026, is asking the court to determine whether Duke was dully returned as the presidential candidate of PRP in the May 25 primary election, in which its results was declared on May 26, having not been a registered member of the party as at May 4, when the PRP’s membership register was submitted to INEC.
