Kano election: APC defeats NNPP at tribunal

• His victory was nullified because of the forgery of his primary school certificate
• Consequently, the tribunal declared Hafizu Kawu of the All Progressive Congress (APC) winner of the election

The electoral victory of Mukthar Umar Yarima of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) into the Federal House of Representatives has been annulled.

The National and State House of Assemblies Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Kano nullified Yarima victory on Thursday.

His victory was nullified because of the forgery of his primary school certificate.

Consequently, the tribunal declared Hafizu Kawu of the All Progressive Congress (APC) winner of the election.

In delivering the judgement, the three-man panel of the tribunal upheld that the respondent, Yarima, didn’t attend Hausawa Primary School.

After evaluating statements by witnesses and documents tendered before it, the tribunal averred that Yarima forged his primary school certificate and therefore was not qualified to contest the Tarauni Federal House of Representatives Election.

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.