NDC accuses INEC official of issuing conflicting reports on Kano primary

The Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) in Kano State has accused an Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) official of issuing multiple contradictory reports regarding the party's gubernatorial primary election, alleging that the documents misrepresented their candidates and were being utilized in legal proceedings against the party.

The party's petition, filed on October 16, 2026, directed its concerns towards Hauwa Buhari Buhari, the Head of the Department of Election and Party Monitoring at INEC's Kano office. Tahir Chambers, the party's lawyers, submitted the petition to the INEC chairman via the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Kano.

The NDC contended that several versions of a report on their Kano State primary election were issued, each bearing the signature of the official in question, yet the reports contained fundamentally inconsistent information. According to the petition, the documents listed individuals who were neither NDC candidates nor participants in the primary election, while simultaneously excluding those the party designated as its officially nominated candidates.

The NDC also criticized the reports for failing to specify the date of the Kano State primary election they purported to describe.

Furthermore, the party faulted the reports for allegedly failing to disclose the criteria by which the listed individuals had been deemed ineligible or ineligible. The NDC urged INEC to address these discrepancies, though the petition did not provide a comprehensive list of the remedies the party sought. The allegations, however, could not be independently verified from the petition alone. No response was provided by INEC or the official named in the complaint.