Salient questions over Kano Tribunal judgment, by Yakubu Wudil
By OUR REPORTER, Kano
An associate professor, Dr Yakubu Sani Wudil, has pushed out some salient questions regarding Wednesday’s judgment of Kano State Election Petition Tribinal, sacking Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf and declaring the candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Yusuf Gawuna. As duly elected governor.
Yusuf contested as candidate of New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) in the March 18, 2023 governorship in the Nigeria’s largest economy.
In the questions that he, asked, to be educated on how the Kano tribunal did not follow the rule that says when number of votes cacelled is higher than number of difference between votes scored by two leading parties, said:
“I have these honest questions regarding today’s Kano judgement and need only honest and objective answer.
“I understand that the tribunal has ordered the inspection of the used ballot papers and they found that about 165K ballot papers (across the state) were either not signed, stamped, dated, or both, which made them wasted.
“1- Statistically, under normal circumstance, it is not possible that all those ballot papers belong to a particular candidate.
“2- Where were the party agents at the PU, ward level, and local government level when the votes were inserted? Who inserted them?
“3- Assuming 165K votes were deducted from NNPP, it would remain about 863K votes for them, while APC had 890K votes. However, the election had more than 70K votes cancelled due to over-voting, more than the difference between the votes scored by the two parties (27K). Why wasn’t it declared as inconclusive?”
Wudil pushed these questions across in a reaction posted on his X handle Wednesday night.
When interjected by one Adnan Mouckhtar who noted that “NNPP didn’t defend that issue well before the tribunal”, Dr Wudil insisted saying, “Mallam Adnan, there’s so much that can’t be said in public.”
