Just in, the Supreme Court on Monday, January 20th, 2020 affirmed the 2019 election of the Kano State governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Umar Abdullahi Ganduje, as Governor of Kano State.
A seven-man panel led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, in a unanimous judgment, dismissed the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party’s Kabir Abba Yusuf to challenge the victory of the governor at the March 2019 poll.
Justice Sylvster Ngwuta who delivered the lead judgment of the apex court held that Yusuf failed to demonstrate any cogent reasons.
Similarly, the Apex Court upheld both the judgments of the Kano State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal and the Court of Appeal which had both affirmed the victory of Ganduje as the duly elected Governor of Kano State.
