SDP provides INEC 24 hours to revive IPAC chairman Musa, withdraw Adamu's identify

The Social Democratic Party, SDP, has issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to revive the identify of Danlami Mohammed Musa as its governorship candidate in Nasarawa State, describing the alternative of his identify with Mohammed Abubakar Adamu in INEC’s closing record as “illegal and unlawful.”

In a petition dated October 21, 2026, addressed to the INEC Chairman on the fee’s headquarters in Maitama, Abuja, the get together threatened to pull INEC to courtroom if it fails to conform.

The petition, signed by SDP National Chairman, Shehu Musa Gabam, and Acting National Secretary, Uchechukwu Chukwuma, and acknowledged by INEC the identical day, accused the fee of mocking the authority of the Supreme Court.

Musa, who’s the Nasarawa State Chairman of SDP and in addition the state Chairman of the Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, emerged because the get together’s governorship candidate via a consensus main held on May 26, 2026.

The get together stated it’s baffled that INEC accepted Gabam’s letter dated May 29, 2026, which launched Adamu into the SDP after he resigned from APC on May 24, however rejected one other letter dated June 5, 2026, by which the identical Gabam forwarded Musa’s identify because the duly nominated candidate.

“The Commission cannot recognise Alh. Shehu Musa Gabam as the National Chairman of the SDP and give effect to his letter introducing Mohammed Abubakar Adamu as a member of the SDP in one breath and, in another breath, deny his position as the National Chairman of the same SDP by discountenancing his letter of June 5, 2026,” the get together queried.

According to the SDP, Musa’s identify was already within the membership register submitted to INEC by the May 10, 2026 deadline, whereas Adamu was not.

The get together famous that Adamu participated within the APC governorship main on May 21, resigned on May 24, joined SDP on May 29, 19 days after INEC’s register deadline and subsequently was not eligible.

The get together hinged its objection on eight grounds, together with that the Electoral Act, 2026 doesn’t recognise an “updated register,” that Musa by no means withdrew from the race, and {that a} purported recent main held on September 5, 2026 which produced Adamu fell outdoors the 14-day window allowed after a withdrawal that allegedly occurred on June 9.

In a separate petition to INEC, Musa himself described the publication of Adamu’s identify as a “grave violation of his rights and a mockery of the law and the authority of the Supreme Court.”