KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) has awarded ticket for the Senate by-election to Barrister Murtaza Wahab on the seat vacated by Saeed Ghani after he won a Sindh Assembly by-election from Karachi.
Syed Najmi Alam will be the covering candidate in this by-election. The Senate by-election is scheduled on August 17. Barrister Wahab has earlier served as law adviser for Sindh chief minister before his appointment was declared illegal by Sindh High Court.
Saeed Ghani was elected as Member of Sindh Assembly from PS-114 in by-election held on July 10, 2017. Following his election, Ghani resigned from Senate and took oath as MPA. Election commission of Pakistan (ECP) is yet to announce schedule for by-election, PPP nominated Wahab its candidate.
As PPPP has comfortable majority in Sindh Assembly, the Electoral College for Senate, Wahab is certain to win the seat. It is to be mentioned here that Murtaza Wahab is the son of PPP’s late MNA Fauzia Wahab and has remained Advisor to Chief Minister Sindh on Law.
However, he had to resign following Supreme Court verdict on a petition against appointment of Advisors by Sindh CM.
