Desmond Mgboh, Kano
An Appeal Court sitting in Kaduna has affirmed Abba Kabir Yusuf as the bonafide candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano State for Saturday’s governorship election.
The court, presided over by Justice Daniel O. Kalio, equally granted all the prayers put forward by the appellate in the case.
The Appeal Court also restrained INEC from removing the name of Yusuf and other PDP candidates from the list of contestants for Saturday’s elections.
The PDP had sought a stay of execution on an earlier judgement of a Federal High Court in Kano, on the validity of the party’s governorship primary election held on October 2, 2018.
In his response to the verdict, Yusuf said he was not surprised at the outcome of the case at the Appeal Court.
“As I have stated in the past, the case mainly concerns our party and an aggrieved member who is working with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, to remedy the fast, growing unpopularity of Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje,” Yusuf said a statement signed by his spokesman, Alhaji Sanusi Bature.