Kano election tribunal: APC wins NNPP in House of Reps tussle
Hafizu Kawu of the All Progressive Congress (APC) was declared the winner of the February 25 Federal House of Representatives election by the National and State House of Assemblies Election Petition Tribunal in Kano, annulling the victory of Mukthar Umar Yarima of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) due to the falsification of his primary school diploma.
The three-person tribunal panel’s ruling affirmed the fact that Yarima, the respondent, did not attend Hausawa Primary School.
The tribunal concluded that Yarima falsified his primary school diploma and was therefore ineligible to run in the Tarauni Federal House of Representatives Election after examining witness testimony and the materials presented to it.
The panel consequently declared all the total votes scored by the NNPP candidate as waste and declared the petitioner, APC’s Hafizu Kawu, who came second in the election, as the winner.
