BREAKING: Ganduje floors PDP opponent at tribunal
The Kano state election petitions tribunal has upheld the victory of Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano state.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Ganduje, who contested the last gubernatorial poll under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the election but Abba Yusuf, his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rival, challenged his victory.
Yusuf had asked the tribunal to set aside the election on the grounds that it was fraught with irregularities.
But Ganduje, through his lawyers, told the court that the petitioners failed to prove that the election was rigged.
The governor and his party argued that the exhibits that were tendered by the petitioners were not certified true copies (CTC), asking the tribunal to dismiss the petition in its entirety.
