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Femi Falana, a senior advocate of Nigeria , has faulted the judgement of the Kano state election petitions tribunal.Abba Yusuf, candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party , as governor of the state.
The panel affirmed Yusuf Gawuna of the All Progressives Congress as the duly elected governor of Kano.Yusuf polled 1,019,602 votes to defeat his close rival, Gawuna, who got 890,705 votes in the March 11 governorship election. While delivering judgement, the tribunal deducted 165,663 from the votes recorded for the NNPP candidate on the grounds that the ballot papers were not signed, stamped and dated by INEC as required by the law.Speaking during an interview on Friday on Channels Television, Falana said judges cannot punish voters because of errors committed by INEC officials.
“And I think that was what recently happened in Kano where 165,000 votes were said to have been annulled because they were not marked by INEC officials.
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