Tribunal dismisses Gaya’s petition, sacks another NNPP Kano reps member

The case of former Kano State governor Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya, which contested Abdulrahman Kawu Sumaila’s victory in the Senate elections on February 25, was rejected by the National/State House of Assembly Election case Tribunal.

The petition of the All Progressives Congress senatorial candidate was deemed incompetent and unable to satisfy the burden of proof by Justice R Odogo, who rendered the decision in Kano on Monday.

“We find no merit in this petition,” he said. “Therefore, it is hereby dismissed.”

We officially recognised Abdulrahman Kawu Sumaila of the New Nigeria Peoples Party NPP as the victor of the Kano South Senatorial District election, which was place on February 25, 2023, he said.
The tribunal granted the respondent N200,000 in compensation.

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Idris Dankawu’s election as a member of the Kano NNPP House of Representatives has been revoked by the National and State Election Petition Tribunal.

The tribunal claimed that Dankawu had faked the West African School Certificate (WAEC) that he presented to run for the Kumbotso Federal Constituency.

According to the petitioner, Munir Babba Danagudi, the respondent submitted a fake copy of his secondary school diploma in order to gain admission to the Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic in Zaria, Kaduna State.

The judge who rendered the decision, Justice I.P. Chima, agreed with the petitioner and nullified the respondent’s victory while ordering the Independent National Electoral Commission to revoke the Certificate of Return it had issued to him and declare Munir Babba Danagudi the election’s victor.