Ganduje Mocks Kwankwaso, Exposes Errors Exploited by APC to Secure Victory Against NNPP and Governor Abba Yusuf at Appeal Court.


The APC chairman, Abdullahi Umaru Ganduje, has taunted Rabiu Kwankwaso as he revealed how the party used a legal loophole to defeat the NNPP at the Appeal Court last Friday.

The INEC had announced Abba Kabir Yusuf as the winner of the March 18, 2023, election, but the APC challenged the result and went to the State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal which cancelled 165,663 votes for Yusuf because the ballot papers were not signed or stamped by INEC.

Yusuf's votes were then reduced to 853,939 while the APC candidate, Nasir Ganuwa, had 890,705 votes, with the tribunal declaring that Ganuwa was the rightful winner of the election.

Yusuf and the NNPP appealed the ruling at the Appeal Court but the court upheld the tribunal's decision, stating that Yusuf was not a member of NNPP when he contested.

While speaking to party supporters in Kano on Saturday, Ganduje said the APC knew the errors Yusuf, Kwankwaso and NNPP made and waited for the right time to use them against the governor.
Ganduje said that Yusuf and Kwankwaso were members of the PDP but they left the party and joined the NNPP in 2022 without realizing that INEC had closed the submission of nomination forms when they switched parties.

"They were in PDP and when the crisis heated up and they were punched repeatedly, they left the party and started groping for a platform," Ganduje said, noting that Kwankwaso and his allies were so desperate that they did not notice the INEC lacuna.

"Unfortunately, they ran into a political party symbolizing fruits. They were given tickets because their leader was daydreaming; their leader was ambitious to be the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, but he was frightened," he continued.

"And because they desperately wanted a governor in Kano State, the party gave them a ticket to contest. But they made a serious blunder because when they joined the party, INEC had closed submission of nomination forms.

"But they were blind and uneducated. They went into the ring without making careful observation of this.

"They did not know that we laid in wait. We took the file, submitted it to Dr Nasiru Yusuf Gwuna and told him to hold it tight.

"When we filed a petition at the Kano governorship election tribunal, we told the court that they were not fielded by the party.

"We told the court that when INEC closed accepting names of candidates, they did not join the party," Ganduje said.

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