22 Days After Ganduje Was Declared Winner Of Kano State Governorship Election, PDP’s Abba Yusuf Files Petition Against Him

22 Days After Ganduje Was Declared Winner Of Kano State Governorship Election, PDP’s Abba Yusuf Files Petition Against Him

Twenty two days after the declaration of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje
as winner of the March 23 governorship election in Kano State by the
Independent National Electoral Commission, the PDP in Kano on Thursday
finally filed a petition against the victory.

The petition filed by the party before the governorship election
tribunal is contending that its governorship candidate, Abba Yusuf, won
the March 9 election, as such any result other than that was a nullity.

The party is also contending that the supplementary election
conducted by INEC was unconstitutional and unlawful. Speaking to
journalists shortly after filing the petition, Yusuf said during the
March 9 governorship election, the PDP got the highest votes across the
44 local governments in the state.  

“The prayer we are asking is for the tribunal to determine the actual
winner in the election that took place on March 9. To me as the PDP
candidate the only election that took place was on March 9.”

He noted that the issue of supplementary election as far as PDP is
concerned was an illegality ‘which we reject and have nothing to do with
That is the content of the petition.”  

The petitioners Counsel, Maliki Kuliya-Umar, said the declaration of
the March 9 election as inconclusive was an opportunity given to APC to
rig its candidate back to power. “We trust the tribunal to do what is
right by confirming the election of March 9, as it was the only election
recognized by law,” he said.  

Umar argued that whatever reason INEC had to declare the March 9
election inconclusive was unconstitutional and not in accordance with
the provisions of the Electoral Act.