The decision follows the dismissal of challenges to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s election victory.
Nigeria’s election authority had earlier declared the New Nigeria Peoples Party’s Abba Kabir Yusuf the winner of the March 18 election.
But in a unanimous decision, three tribunal judges declared Gawuna the winner of the election on the grounds that the votes that gave Abba victory were invalid. Kano, northern Nigeria’s largest city and its commercial hub, is of strategic political significance, with the second-largest number of voters after southern Lagos state.
Although Tinubu won the February presidential election, Kwankwaso got the highest number of votes in Kano, securing 997,279 to Tinubu’s 517,341.
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