APC Primary In Kwara Faces Scrutiny As Court Documents Claim Candidate Polled More Votes Than Total Voters

The Plaintiff contends that the cumulative votes allocated to all aspirants on the same Patigi Local Government result sheet amount to 27,408 votes, despite the document recording only 21,315 total voters.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) House of Representatives primary election for the Edu/Moro/Patigi Federal Constituency in Kwara State has come under scrutiny after documents filed before the Federal High Court in Ilorin allegedly revealed glaring numerical discrepancies in the result sheets relied upon by the party to defend the nomination of its candidate.

The disputed documents, filed by the APC in Suit No. FHC/IL/CS/107/2026, Hussein Afolabi Esq. v. APC & 2 Others, are now at the centre of a pre-election legal battle challenging the nomination of the party's House of Representatives candidate for the 2027 general elections.

According to court documents obtained by SaharaReporters, one of the certified result sheets filed by the APC and signed by the Chairman of the Primary Election Committee, Habeeb Salau, shows that the party's candidate, Mohammed Mamman, scored 21,676 votes in Patigi Local Government Area.

However, the same result sheet reportedly records the total number of voters in Patigi Local Government Area as 21,315, creating a discrepancy in which the votes credited to Mohammed Mamman alone exceed the total number of voters by 361 votes.