You may proceed to Supreme Court, we will win you there again — APC National Chairman, Ganduje tells sacked Kano Governor 

You may proceed to Supreme Court, we will win you there again — APC National Chairman, Ganduje tells sacked Kano Governor 

 

 

Former governor of Kano State and national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, has asked Governor Kabir Yusuf of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) to go ahead and appeal the judgment of the Appeal Court at the Supreme Court where he (Yusuf) would finally be sacked.

 

 

Ganduje said this on Friday while reacting to the verdict of the Court of Appeal which on Friday upheld the ruling of the Kano State governorship election tribunal which sacked Yusuf and declared the APC candidate, Nasiru Gawuna, winner of March 18 poll.

 

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NEWS WEEK NIGERIA had earlier reported that the panel upheld the verdict of the tribunal led by Justice Oluyemi Akintan Osadebay which sacked Yusuf on September 20, 2023.

 

 

The lower court had declared 165,663 votes of the governor invalid on the grounds that they were not signed or stamped by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

 

 

The governor’s votes were then reduced to 853,939 while those of Nasir Ganuwa, his All Progressives Congress (APC) rival, remained at 890,705.

 

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INEC had announced Yusuf winner of the March 18, 2023 election, after he garnered 1,019,602 votes to defeat Gawuna who got 890,705 of the votes cast.

 

 

But the APC approached the Tribunal, citing alleged electoral malpractice.

 

Meanwhile, the APC chairman, Ganduje, who applauded the judgment said he was sure that the NNPP would still want to try their luck at the Supreme Court, while assuring them of another round of defeat.

 

The Nation quoted Ganduje on Friday as saying, “Probably they will go to the Supreme Court which is part of democracy. There is nothing wrong for them to go to the Supreme Court. We, too, are ready to meet them in the Supreme Court. And Inshallah, we will win in the Supreme Court as well.”

 

Ganduje added that “Now as the governor-elect for Kano State, he (Gawuna) will provide a similar and I believe, he will provide a better administration and more achievements will be recorded in Kano State, because that is what we expect.”