Appeal Court upholds tribunal judgement, sacks Governor Abba Yusuf, declares APC\u2019s Nasiru Gawuna as winner of Kano State Governorship Election.<\/p>\n
Appeal Court rules that Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf was not a member of the NNPP as at the time the elections were conducted and is therefore not qualified to contest for the seat. It also said the tribunal was wrong not to have disqualified the appellant (Governor Yusuf).<\/p>\n
The lower court had declared 165,663 votes of Yusuf, who contested under the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), invalid on the grounds that they were not signed or stamped by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).<\/p>\n
The governor\u2019s votes were then reduced to 853,939 while those of Nasir Ganuwa, his All Progressives Congress (APC) rival, remained at 890,705.<\/p>\n
Yusuf had rejected the tribunal verdict, which he described as \u201cunfair\u201d and \u201ca miscarriage of justice\u201d, and headed to the appeal court.<\/p>\n
At the court, Wole Olanipekun, SAN, lead for Yusuf, asked that the judgement of the tribunal be set aside.<\/p>\n
Kicking against the ruling on ballot papers, the senior lawyer said that was the first time in the history that a tribunal would annul an election over non-signing of the back of ballot papers.<\/p>\n
He had said the tribunal erred, arguing further that, that was the first time that a political party would file a matter without joining its candidate as a party in the petition and the candidate would declared winner of the polls.<\/p>\n
But Akin Olujimi SAN, counsel for APC, countered him saying the Appeal Court stated emphatically that the non-signing of ballots amounted to electoral malpractice.<\/p>\n
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