{"id":34989,"date":"2021-01-14T16:29:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T16:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=34989"},"modified":"2021-01-14T16:16:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T16:16:28","slug":"kano-election-splits-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/kano-election-splits-pdp","title":{"rendered":"Kano election splits PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The January 16 local government election in Kano has polarized the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Kwankwasiyya faction restated its decision to boycott the poll.<\/p>\n<p>The Chairman, Shehu Sagagi, told newsmen that the party had sued Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) for contempt of court.<\/p>\n<p>The politician said the KANSIEC Chairman \u201cis either ignorant of the extant laws or he is just behaving like a politician\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sagagi recalled that the faction set to participate in the election \u201chad earlier gone to court and we won the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that only the National Executive Committee (NEC) has the power to appoint an executive.<\/p>\n<p>Sagagi insisted the law recognises the leadership of the former caretaker committee led Danladi Muhammad.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled that the election of his faction was conducted on December 12, 2020, and they were immediately sworn in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Chairman of KANSIEC has any doubt, let him write a letter to the INEC to seek clarification. They are trying to muscle us and we are not cowards,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sagagi cautioned the commission against recognising the other faction of the PDP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The January 16 local government election in Kano has polarized the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP). On Wednesday, the Kwankwasiyya faction restated its decision to boycott the poll. The Chairman, Shehu Sagagi, told newsmen that the party had sued Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) for contempt of court. The politician said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":34988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,26],"tags":[1570,2140,372,254,65],"class_list":["post-34989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-kano","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kano election splits PDP - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The January 16 local government election in Kano has polarized the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP).\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/kano-election-splits-pdp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kano election splits PDP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The January 16 local government election in Kano has polarized the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP).\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/kano-election-splits-pdp\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-01-14T16:29:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/img-60006e38e4b31.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1534\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1440\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/kano-election-splits-pdp#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/kano-election-splits-pdp\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kano election splits PDP\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-01-14T16:29:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/kano-election-splits-pdp\"},\"wordCount\":190,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/kano-election-splits-pdp#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/img-60006e38e4b31.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Kano\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/kano-election-splits-pdp#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/kano-election-splits-pdp\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/kano-election-splits-pdp\",\"name\":\"Kano election splits PDP - 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