{"id":6850,"date":"2023-11-17T14:08:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=6850"},"modified":"2023-11-17T14:12:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:12:30","slug":"court-of-appeal-affirms-nasiru-gawuna-as-winner-of-kano-governorship-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/11\/17\/court-of-appeal-affirms-nasiru-gawuna-as-winner-of-kano-governorship-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Court of Appeal Affirms Nasiru Gawuna as Winner of Kano Governorship Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Idowu<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja, upheld the verdict of the Kano Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on Friday, confirming Nasiru Gawuna, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, as the rightful winner of the governorship election in the state.<\/p>\n<p>In a decisive move, the appellate court dismissed the appeal lodged by Abba Yusuf, the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) candidate and incumbent governor of Kano State.<\/p>\n<p>The Kano State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal had, on September 20, nullified the governorship victory of Abba Yusuf and declared Nasiru Gawuna of the APC as the legitimate winner of the March 18 election.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing dissatisfaction with the tribunal&#8217;s decision, Governor Abba Yusuf, represented by his counsel Wole Olanipekun, sought the intervention of the Court of Appeal, urging them to set aside the judgment of the lower tribunal.<\/p>\n<p>However, with the recent decision of the Court of Appeal, Nasiru Gawuna&#8217;s victory in the Kano governorship election has been affirmed, bringing a resolution to the electoral dispute that ensued after the polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Idowu The Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja, upheld the verdict of the Kano Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on Friday, confirming Nasiru Gawuna, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, as the rightful winner of the governorship election in the state. In a decisive move, the appellate court dismissed the appeal lodged by Abba Yusuf, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6853,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850\/revisions\/6853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}