Appeal Court Sacks Kano Gov, Upholds Bauchi Gov Election

The Court of  Appeal sitting in Abuja has sacked Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State.

Governor Yusuf had earlier been sacked by the state Election Tribunal on September 20. The governor appealed the ruling, which has now been affirmed by the appellate court.

The situation is however different in Bauchi state where the Court of Appeal has affirmed the election of  Governor Bala Mohammed.

In the case of Kano, the lower court had declared 165,663 votes of Yusuf of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP invalid citing that they were not signed or stamped by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

The governor’s votes were then reduced to 853,939 while those of Nasir Ganuwa, of the All Progressives Congress, remained at 890,705.

More to come…..