Kano State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal has sacked Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf and declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nasiru Gawuna, winner of the March 18 governorship poll.
The judgment was transmitted virtually via Zoom, a teleconference service as the panel members were not physically in court.
The three-man panel, on Wednesday, ordered the withdrawal of certificate of return which INEC presented to Yusuf, and directed a certificate of return to be issued to Gawuna.
The court deducted 165,663 votes from Yusuf as invalid, stating that the ballot papers (165,663) were not stamped or signed and therefore declared invalid.
Recall, INEC had declared that Yusuf polled 1,019,602 votes to defeat Gawuna, who scored 890,705 votes.