The Kano Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has sacked Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf as the governor of Kano state, declaring the All Progressives Congress winner of the March 18 election.
Yusuf, who contested on the platform of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) was declared winner of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The tribunal therefore ordered the withdrawal of certificate of return issued to Governor Yusuf of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) and directed that a certificate of return to be issued to the APC Governorship candidate, Nasiru Gawuna.
The oddity of the tribunal judgment was that Judges delivered their verdict via Zoom as they were not physically in court.
Earlier, journalists, lawyers, party members and many others were denied access into the court and the tribunal Secretariat had said there would be no live broadcast of the judgment and that the few journalists admitted into the court would not make use of smartphones or cameras.
Nobody knew where the location of the Judges. When the proceedings commenced before 10, Justice Oluyemi Akintan-Osadebay, Chairman of the three-member panel, spoke via Zoom.
