KANO – The National and State Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal in Kano has nullified the election of Muktar Umar Yerima of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), who represented Tarauni Federal Constituency.
In a ruling delivered by a three-man panel led by Justice I.P. Chima, the tribunal found Yerima unqualified to have contested the election, citing forgery of his primary school certificate. The court ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to withdraw his Certificate of Return.
The petition was filed by Hafizu Kawu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who challenged Yerima’s eligibility. The tribunal upheld the petition, ruling that Yerima’s defense of a name change was invalid, as he had been using a different set of names on official documents since 2009. Furthermore, the primary school he claimed to have attended disowned the certificate he presented.
Consequently, the tribunal declared that the NNPP had no valid candidate in the election, paving the way for the APC’s Hafizu Kawu to potentially be declared the winner.
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Disclaimer: This report is a synthesized summary of a tribunal ruling as reported by various news outlets. This publication has condensed the information for clarity and is not the original source of the legal proceedings.
