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Jerri Gana, Donald Duke, 2 SDP Presidential Contenders At Each Other’s Throat

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Two presidential contenders on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Professor Jerry Gana and Donald Duke have dragged themselves to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in the Maitama claiming that the national convention of the party that produced Donald Duke was illegal.

Jerri Gana, who instituted the suit before the court today, Monday, asked that Duke be disqualified as the party’s presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections.

Professor Gana, a former minister of information, further asked the court  to nullify the emergence of the former Cross River State governor as the SDP candidate on the grounds that the process that produced him violated the constitution of the party.

Duke had polled 812 votes to defeat the former minister who scored 611 votes at the SDP National Convention held at Old Parade Ground in Abuja on October 7.

Professor Gana, however, claimed that the convention of the party which ushered in Duke as the presidential candidate of the party was illegal and flawed.

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“In the party’s constitution as provided under section 15(3), it was stipulated that the party will respect the principle of rotation and zoning because it is important to building up of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

“The provision specifies that the position of national chairman of SDP cannot come from the same part of Nigeria.”

He told the court that the party’s constitution provides that if the chairman comes from the southern part of Nigeria, then the presidential candidate must come from the northern region.

The case has been adjourned to November 13 due to the indisposition of the presiding judge, Justice Husseini Baba Yusuf.

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