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The Supreme Court has upheld the election of Abdullahi Umar Ganduje as the Governor of Kano State under the All Progressives Congress (APC) party.
The petition filed by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Abba Kabir Yusuf, was struck out by a seven-man panel of the court which unanimously held that it lacked merit.
In the lead judgement, Justice Sylvester Ngwuta stated that the petitioner failed to provide cogent reason for the apex court to set aside the judgement of the two lower courts (election tribunal and Court of Appeal) which upheld Ganduje’s election.
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