The Supreme Court has upheld the election of Abdullahi Ganduje as the governor of Kano State.
The apex court gave the verdict on Monday after a unanimous judgement by a seven-man panel of Justices that was led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammad, dismissed an appeal filed by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Abba Yusuf.
Yusuf had in his appeal marked SC/1450/2019, prayed the Supreme Court to set aside the concurrent decision of both the Kano Governorship Election Petition Tribunal and the Court of Appeal, which affirmed Ganduje’s re-election.
In the notice of appeal he filed on November 30, he stated that he scored the highest votes at the governorship contest that held on March 9, 2019, and satisfied section 179 (2) (a) and (b) of the 1999 Constitution, as amended.