Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano
The Chief Registrar of the Court of Appeal, Umar Bangari, says the Appeal Court judgment sacking Alhaji Kabir Yusuf of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) as Kano State governor remains valid.
Bangari said that what happened in the judgment body was a typo error which did not in anyway invalidate the earlier judgment of the court.
He said the error would be rectified as soon as parties in the matter file formal application to that effect.
He cited Order 23 Rule 4 of the Court of Appeal HandBook which empowered the court to correct any clerical error once detected by the court or any of the parties in the matter.
The Appeal court had last week sacked three governors that INEC declared as winners in the March 2023 guber poll. Strangely, all the three governors sacked by the appellate court are in opposition parties leading to insinuations that Nigeria was heading to a one-party state.
In Zamfara, the appellate court sacked Governor Dauda Lawal of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) when it declared the poll inconclusive about eight months later. The court ordered INEC to conduct a fresh election in three local government areas of the state. PDP’s Lawal and APC’s Bello Matawalle are the major contenders in the race.
On Sunday, the appellate court sacked PDP’s Caleb Mutfwang in Plateau State and ordered INEC to issue a Certificate of Return to APC’s Nentawe Goshwe.
