{"id":127966,"date":"2019-06-19T10:50:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T09:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=127966"},"modified":"2019-06-19T10:50:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T09:50:25","slug":"kano-election-abba-yusuf-wins-in-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=127966","title":{"rendered":"Kano Election: Abba-Yusuf wins in Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, dismissed an appeal filed by a Kano PDP gubernatorial aspirant, Ibrahim Ali-Amin (Little), challenging the nomination of Abba Yusuf as the candidate of the party.<\/p>\n

The apex court said the appeal was dismissed for want of diligent prosecution.<\/p>\n

On April 18, a Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna upheld the appeal by Mr Yusuf, challenging a Federal High Court\u2019s order that sacked him as the party\u2019s candidate.<\/p>\n

Delivering the judgement on Tuesday, Justice Tanko Hussaini said the Federal High Court judge in Kano erred in law by assuming jurisdiction without the plaintiff, Ibrahim Ali-Amin, joining the necessary party, Abba Yusuf.<\/p>\n

The judge also said Ali-Amin lacked locus standi to institute action challenging the process that he did not participate in.<\/p>\n

On March 4, a Federal High Court sitting in Kano sacked the governorship candidate of the People\u2019s Democratic Party, PDP, Abba Yusuf, in the state.<\/p>\n

The presiding judge of the Court 1, Lewis Allagoa, ruled that the PDP did not conduct governorship primary election in the state.<\/p>\n

Ali-Amin, had approached the court, challenging the process that led to the emergence of Mr Yusuf as PDP gubernatorial candidate in Kano, saying Mr Yusuf emerged as a candidate through unlawful process.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, dismissed an appeal filed by a Kano PDP gubernatorial aspirant, Ibrahim Ali-Amin (Little), challenging the nomination of Abba Yusuf as the candidate of the party. The apex court said the appeal was dismissed for want of diligent prosecution. On April 18, a Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna upheld the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5616,49,58],"class_list":["post-127966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-abba-kabiru-yusuf","tag-kano","tag-pdp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}