Just In: Tribunal declares APC’s Nasir Gawuna winner of Kano governorship election

The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Kano State has sacked Abba Kabir Yusuf as governor of the state.

The court in a ruling on Wednesday, September 20, declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nasiru Gawuna, winner of the March 18 governorship poll.

This comes weeks after lawyers of both parties made their closing arguments on behalf ofclients on Monday, August 21.

Recall the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared that the NNPP polled 1,019,602 votes to defeat the APC with its candidate, Nasir Gawuna, who scored 890,705 votes. The NNPP candidate thus won with a margin of 128,897 votes.

However, the APC filed a petition at the tribunal to challenge the results declared by the electoral body.

The three-man panel, on Wednesday, ordered the withdrawal of certificate of return which INEC presented to Yusuf, and directed a certificate of return to be issued to Gawuna.

The court deducted 165,663 votes from Yusuf as invalid, stating that the ballot papers (165,663) were not stamped or signed and therefore declared invalid.