The Kano State Governor, Dr
Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has finally filed his defence of five volumes of 1800
pages and also moved to present 203 witnesses who would tell the whole world
that there was a free and fair election on 23th March 2019.
This was declosed by the
Governor’s lawyer, Barrister Musa Abdullahi Lawan, on Saturday.
Lawan spoke after filing the
Governor’s defence before the State Elections Tribunal sitting at Milla road,
Kano.
Barrister Lawan, who is one of
the leading counsels to the Governor, said the PDP’s petition was unnecessary
in the first place but since it is filed, they would still have to grapple with
losing.
He said, “We brought in our
processes in defense of the petition and we have done it with the time and we
are very confidence of winning and right from the beginning we are saying PDP
petition was unnecessary.”
The lawyer said they are bringing
in 203 witnesses who are key and they are to tell the Court that there was
indeed an election and that the PDP petition was baseless.
The Governor’s defense counsel
noted that with the filing of the petition within 20-25 days, the trial in the
governorship election would fully commence.
He added that they have filed
their petition within the stipulated time of 21 days, claiming that even PDP
exhausted their time before they filed in their petition.
“We are highly confidence of
winning this case because the whole world admits that their was an elections
and that Governor Ganduje actually wins the election,” he said.
The counsel to Ganduje dispelled
rumors that they influenced the transfer of the presiding tribunal Judges to
bring in those who would favour them, but insisted that the number of cases of
about 50 cases are bigger than only one tribunal to handle.
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