The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Nasiru Gawuna, was declared the winner of the March 18 election after Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf was ousted by the Kano Governorship Election Petition Tribunal.
After the vote in March, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) proclaimed Yusuf, who ran on the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) platform, the election winner.
But on Wednesday, the three-man panel ordered the revocation of the certificate of return that INEC had given to Yusuf and mandated that a certificate of return be given to Gawuna after hearing the petitions.
As a result of the concerned voting papers not being stamped or signed, the court considered them invalid and removed 165,663 votes from Yusuf’s total as a result.
Following the INEC’s handing of the certificate of return to the NNPP candidate, the APC candidate accepted defeat to Yusuf, and the decision was made roughly six months ago.
Gawuna said that, “as a good Muslim,” he was obligated to accept the election’s results, whether they were favourable to him or not, in a two-minute audio statement on March 29.
Yusuf was declared the election’s victor, he continued, despite the fact that his campaign team had asked INEC to review the poll results.
