The Supreme Court has humbled the All Progress Congress, APC in Kano State, as it declared Abba Yusuf of New Nigerian People’s Parry, NNPP Abba duly elected Governor of Kano State.
In a judgment on Friday at the Supreme Court, Justice John Okoro ordered that all the ballot papers from which the appellant votes were deducted should be restored to the governor.
He said the paper contains the logo of INEC and the coat of arms as prescribed by the provisions of the Electoral Acts.
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He also held that the issue of party membership is an internal affair of the party, which has been said several times by the courts.
It would be recalled that the tribunal had set aside Governor Abba Yusuf of the New Nigeria Peoples Party victory after declaring 165,663 of his votes invalid.
The tribunal held that the deducted votes were from ballot papers that were neither stamped nor signed were illegal.
Not satisfied with the judgment, the governor went to the appeal court for redress, equally meeting the same fate as the appeal court, which also upheld the tribunal’s decision and faulted the lower court for not disqualifying the governor.
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