Tribunal removes Kano’s governor and proclaims the APC winner

The All Progressives Congress, APC’s Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna has been proclaimed the victor of the Kano governorship race by the Governorship race Petition Tribunal, which is in session in Kano.

The tribunal issued the final ruling after voiding part of the votes submitted by Abba Kabir Yusuf, the candidate for the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) and governor of Kano.

The NNPP’s vote advantage, according to the presiding judge, Justice Oluyemi Akintan Osadabey, was insufficient to award Governor Yusuf the victory.

It claimed that some of the votes given to Yusus were fraudulent.

The three arguments made before the tribunal—overvoting, illegal votes, and not being a party member at the time of the NNPP primary—were all won by APC’s Gawuna.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, was directed by the Tribunal to take back the Certificate of Return that had been given to Yusuf and award it to Gawuna as the election’s initial victor.

She asserted that according to the law, a person must be an actual member of a political party before they are permitted to run for office, but in the instance of Abba Kabir Yusuf, he wasn’t a member of the NNPP 30 days prior to the general elections.

Gawuna received 897,000 votes once the votes were counted, while Abba received 850,000.