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Abba Kabir Yusuf, Kano State governor, has hired renowned legal practitioner, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN) to lead the charge to regain his mandate at the Court of Appeal.
Governor Yusuf dissatisfied with the tribunal judgment presented a 40 grounds for the Appeal Court to set aside the judgment.
Ground 18 among the grounds reads: “the tribunal erred in law when it relied on Section 71 and 63 of the Electoral Act, 2022 to nullify the ballot papers by which a total of 165,616 votes were deducted from the votes of Appellant’s candidate thereby reducing the lawful votes of the Appellant’s votes of 1,019,602 and thereby wrongly declaring petitioner’s candidate as the winner of the election, whereby the petitioner’s right to fair hearing is denied”.