{"id":437,"date":"2024-01-12T13:47:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T13:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnpp.net.ng\/register\/?p=437"},"modified":"2024-01-12T13:47:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T13:47:30","slug":"breaking-supreme-court-declares-abba-yusuf-as-authentic-governor-of-kano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnpp.net.ng\/register\/breaking-supreme-court-declares-abba-yusuf-as-authentic-governor-of-kano\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Supreme Court declares Abba Yusuf as authentic governor of Kano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has declared Abba Kabir Yusuf as the authentic governor of Kano State.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The court on Friday set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Abuja which nullified his victory as the state\u2019s governor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ruling of a five-member panel of justices held that the lower court misunderstood the import of the purported deduction of 165,616 ballot papers in favour of Governor Yusuf.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The lead judgment by Justice Inyang Okoro also held that the issue of Governor Yusuf\u2019s membership was a pre-election matter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said the finding that by virtue of Section 177(c) of the Nigerian Constitution and Section 134(1) of the Electoral Act, Governor Yusuf was not sponsored by the NNPP, was not a finding of the electoral tribunal but a mere observation that his name was not contained in the membership list.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TAGS: <\/strong>Abba Kabir Yusuf, Kano Governor, Supreme Court<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has declared Abba Kabir Yusuf as the authentic governor of Kano State. &nbsp; The court on Friday set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Abuja which nullified his victory as the state\u2019s governor. &nbsp; The ruling of a five-member panel of justices held that the lower court misunderstood the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpp.net.ng\/register\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpp.net.ng\/register\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpp.net.ng\/register\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpp.net.ng\/register\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpp.net.ng\/register\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nnpp.net.ng\/register\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/nnpp.net.ng\/register\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpp.net.ng\/register\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpp.net.ng\/register\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpp.net.ng\/register\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpp.net.ng\/register\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}