The Supreme Court has fixed Thursday December 21, for hearing of the Kano Governorship Election Petition.
This was contained in a notice to the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) – the parties in the suit.
The Court of Appeal had on November 17 upheld the decision of the election petition tribunal, which sacked Governor Abba Yusuf of the NNPP and declared the APC candidate, Dr. Nasiru Gawuna, winner of the governorship election in Kano.
The three-member panel of the appeal court dismissed the appeal filed by Governor Yusuf based on his membership status in his party.
Confusion, however, ensued on Tuesday, November 21 when the CTC of the court judgment which surfaced four days after the judgment had been delivered showed contradictions in the conclusions.
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In the lead judgment delivered by Justice Moore Adumein, the judge held in one of the concluding paragraphs on Page 68, “I will conclude by stating that the live issues in this appeal are hereby resolved in favor of the 1st respondent and against the appellant.”
Dissatisfied with the judgment, the NNPP filed its notice of appeal before the Supreme Court to challenge the November 17 judgment of the Court of Appeal which upheld the decision of the Election Petition Tribunal, sacking Governor Abba Yusuf and declared Dr. Nasiru Gawuna, of the All-Progressives Congress, APC as the duly elected governor of Kano State.
In the notice of appeal dated November 22 and filed by Gboyega Awomolo SAN, leading seven other senior advocates and 10 other lawyers, the NNPP listed 10 grounds for challenging the appeal.