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Declare Kano Governorship Polls Inconclusive - Apc Tells Tribunal

POSTED ON April 12, 2023 •   Uncategorized      BY Akinbohun Samuel

The New Nigeria Peoples Party's (NNPP) Abba Kabir-Yusuf being declared the election's winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) is being contested by the party.

The Kano Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has been tasked by the All Progressives Congress (APC) with rejecting the results of the state's March 18 election

With 1,019,602 votes, Mr. Kabir-Yusuf of the NNPP defeated Nasiru Gawuna of the APC, the current deputy governor of the state, who received 892,705 votes.

The APC claimed in a five-volume petition submitted on April 9 that Kabir-Yusuf of the NNPP was ineligible to run in the election because his name did not appear on the list of NNPP members given to INEC.

The petition's respondents are INEC, Kabir-Yusuf, and NNPP.

The APC claimed that the NNPP did not win the election with the majority of valid votes, contending that some of the ballots were cast in error and that if those votes were eliminated from the results, APC would have received the most votes.

The Kano Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), according to the APC, erred in naming Mr. Kabir-Yusuf as the winner, and the lead margin was not greater than the number of votes that were disqualified.

The party requested that the tribunal rule that the NNPP did not field a candidate and that Mr. Kabir-Yusuf's name did not appear on the voter list provided to INEC before the election.

The APC requested that the tribunal name Nasiru Gawuna as the election's winner.

The party also requested, in the alternative, that the tribunal declare the election inconclusive, claiming that the margin of victory was not greater than the number of ballots that were invalidated.

Malam Abdul Adamu-Fagge, the legal advisor for the Kano APC, told NAN that the court had approved an ex-parte application to inspect the governorship election materials in each of the state's 44 local governments.

According to NAN, the petition did not include APC governor candidate Gawuna.

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