All eyes are on the legal tussle surrounding the May 25, 2022, gubernatorial primary election of the People’s Democratic Party in Adamawa state, which produced Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri as the winner — unopposed.
An aspirant for the Adamawa PDP 2023 gubernatorial ticket, Ambassador Mohammed Jameel Wazir, a 2014 contestant for the same position and a former chief protocol officer to former president Goodluck Jonathan, has approached the federal high court in Abuja, to challenge his exclusion from the May 25, 2022, Adamawa PDP gubernatorial primary election.
An intriguing aspect of the crisis is the political implications for Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate for the 2023 presidential election, who is from Adamawa state. This implies that Atiku is facing two crises — one on the home front and the other, at the national level — from the Governor Nyesom Wike’s ‘distraction’. Many legal experts believe Wazir’s case has merit, and this may be why the federal high court’s only option is to claim no jurisdiction over the case.