Supreme Court Affirms NNPP's ABBA Yusuf As The Duly Elected Governor Of Kano State
The supreme court has certified the election of Abba Yusuf as Kano state governor
The Supreme Court upholds ABBA Yusuf of the NNPP as Kano State's legitimately elected governor.
The New Nigeria Peoples Party's (NNPP) Governor Abba Yusuf has been reinstated by the Supreme Court as the legitimate victor of the March 18 governorship election in Kano State.
In a unanimous ruling on Friday, a five-judge panel of the highest court overturned the concurrent rulings of the Court of Appeal in Abuja and the Kano State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, which had dismissed Governor Yusuf and named All Progressive Congress, APC, candidate Nasiru Gawuna as the victor of the governorship contest.
The Supreme Court ruled in the lead decision, delivered by Justice Inyang Okoro, that the two lower courts had improperly subtracted legitimate votes that the Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, had given to Governor Yusuf.
It concluded that the 165,663 votes that were taken away from Yusuf and the NNPP due to the ballots' lack of a signature, stamp, or date were legitimate.
Furthermore, the court determined that there was no proof governor Yusuf had any influence over the ballot papers' refusal to be signed.
Furthermore, the court criticized the lower courts for declaring Yusuf's election invalid on the grounds that he wasn't a NNPP member.
It ruled that a political party's internal affairs encompassed the sponsorship of a candidate in an election.
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