Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State will soon know his fate as the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has reserved judgment in the appeal he filed, challenging his ouster by the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal.
The Crest recalls that the tribunal had, on September 20, 2023, annulled the governor’s election in the March 18, 2023 governorship vote in the state, declaring 165,663 of his votes invalid.
To reach the verdict, the tribunal had held that the affected ballot papers were neither signed nor stamped by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Consequently, the tribunal declared the All Progressives Congress candidate, Alhaji Nasiru Gawuna, winner of the gubernatorial vote.
But the embattled governor rejected the tribunal’s judgement in its entirety and headed straight to the Court of Appeal. praying it to void the verdict.