The Supreme Court docket has put aside the decrease courts’ choices sacking the Kano State Governor, Yusuff Abba
Yusuff Abba
The tribunal had put aside Yusuf Abba of the New Nigeria Peoples Occasion victory after declaring 165,663 of his votes invalid. The tribunal held that the deducted votes had been from poll papers that had been neither stamped nor signed.
He then approached the enchantment court docket for redress. The enchantment court docket upheld the tribunal’s resolution and faulted the decrease court docket for not disqualifying the governor.
The appellate court docket mentioned the governor was not correctly sponsored by the New Nigeria Peoples Occasion, thus violating the provisions of Part 177 (c) of the structure.
The court docket, nonetheless, declared Nasiru Gawuna of the All Progressives Congress winner of the election.
On the Supreme Court docket, Justice John Okoro ordered that each one the poll papers from which the appellant votes had been deducted must be restored to the governor.
He mentioned the mentioned paper accommodates the brand of INEC and the coat of arms as prescribed by the provisions of the Electoral Act.
He additionally held that the problem of get together membership is an inside affair of the get together.
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