The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has fixed Monday for hearing in the appeal of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, against his All Progressive Congress, APC, rival, Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna.
The governor had filed an appeal to challenge the nullification of his election by the Kano Election Petitions Tribunal.
Recall that a three-man panel of judges led by Justice Oluyemi Akintan Osadebay had sacked Yusuf on September 20, 2023, by declaring 165,663 of his votes invalid because “they were not signed or stamped by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC”.
Yusuf however, described the tribunal’s verdict as “unfair” and “a miscarriage of justice”.
Parties in the suit include Governor Yusuf and his party, NNPP as well as the opposition APC and INEC.
INEC had declared Yusuf winner of the March election after he secured 1,019,602 votes against Gawuna who secured 890,705 votes.
However, the tribunal declared the APC candidate winner of the governorship election and ordered the INEC to withdraw Yusuf’s certificate.
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