The Kano state election petitions
tribunal has upheld the victory of Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano state.
The Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Ganduje, who contested the last
gubernatorial poll under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC),
winner of the election but Abba Yusuf, his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
rival, challenged his victory.
Yusuf had asked the tribunal to
set aside the election on the grounds that it was fraught with irregularities.
But Ganduje, through his lawyers,
told the court that the petitioners failed to prove that the election was
rigged.
The governor and his party argued
that the exhibits that were tendered by the petitioners were not certified true
copies (CTC), asking the tribunal to dismiss the petition in its entirety.
Offiong Offiong, Ganduje’s
counsel, submitted that Yusuf invoked presumptions in attempt to prove to the
court that he was elected as Kano state governor.
Responding to the submissions
made by the respondent, Kanu Agabi, counsel to the petitioners, urged the court
to ignore the response from the respondents on the issues raised.
Agabi said the PDP candidate
scored the highest number of votes during the March 9 election, but INEC
refused to declare him the winner.
He pleaded that the rerun
election held on March 23 be declared null and void, asking the tribunal to use
results of the March 9 poll and return Yusuf as the winner of the election.
In its ruling, the tribunal
headed by Halima Shamaki dismissed the petition of Yusuf for lacking in merit.
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