Following the Appeal Court’s judgement nullifying his election, Kano State governor, Abba Yusuf, has vowed to reclaim his mandate at the Supreme Court.
WesternLifeNewsNG recalls the appellate court sitting in Abuja, on Friday, sacked Governor Yusuf and declared the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna, winner of the March 18 election.
But in a broadcast, on Friday, Yusuf said he has directed his legal team to challenge the ruling at the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, in his response to the judgement, the National Chairman of APC, Abdullahi Ganduje, described his party’s victory as an indication that democracy has come to stay in Nigeria.
Ganduje, addressing newsmen and party’s supporters, in Abuja after the ruling said, “We have to thank the judiciary. There is no doubt this is a victory for democracy. It is a victory for APC and a victory for Kano State. This is an indication that democracy has come to stay in Nigeria. Democracy we can say is matured in Nigeria. We have to thank all those stakeholders, the political parties, and even the NNPP that took us to the Appeal Court.
“For Kano State, this victory is for all of us. We are fully aware, we know what happened during the election; a lot of malpractices and we took the issue to the tribunal and by the grace of God, we got a fair judgement in favour of our great party, APC.
“Now, the government in power, the NNPP decided to go the Court of Appeal and this morning, by the power of God, the Court of Appeal affirmed the judgement of the lower court. And by so doing, our gubernatorial candidate, Dr. Nasiru Gawuna is the duly elected governor of Kano State.
“But in all, probably, they will go to the Supreme Court which is part of democracy. There is nothing wrong for them to go to the Supreme Court. We too are ready to meet them in Supreme Court. And Insha Allah, we will win at the Supreme Court as well.”
