{"id":126664,"date":"2023-12-02T17:41:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T17:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/02\/apc-files-cross-appeal-insists-gov-yusuf-submitted-forged-certificate-to-inec\/"},"modified":"2023-12-02T17:41:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T17:41:53","slug":"apc-files-cross-appeal-insists-gov-yusuf-submitted-forged-certificate-to-inec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/02\/apc-files-cross-appeal-insists-gov-yusuf-submitted-forged-certificate-to-inec\/","title":{"rendered":"APC Files Cross-Appeal, Insists Gov. Yusuf Submitted Forged Certificate To INEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_884624\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-884624\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-884624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Abba-Kabir-Yusuf.jpg\" alt=\"Abba Kabir Yusuf\" width=\"1080\" height=\"626\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-884624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abba Kabir Yusuf<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The All Progressives Congress (APC) has filed a cross-appeal challenging the judgment of the Abuja Appeal Court for failing to disqualify Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State, from contesting the March 18 election over an alleged certificate forgery.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that in September, the State governorship election petition tribunal sacked Yusuf, candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), as Governor.<\/p>\n<p>The tribunal deducted 165,663 votes from the 1,019,602 votes recorded for Yusuf because the ballot papers (165,663) were not stamped, signed and dated as required by law.<\/p>\n<p>The tribunal then declared Yusuf Gawuna of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner.<\/p>\n<p>Displeased with the verdict, the NNPP and its candidate challenged the judgment at the appellate court.<\/p>\n<p>On November 17, the court of appeal upheld the tribunal\u2019s verdict and added that Yusuf was not a member of the NNPP when he contested the election.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: Labour Party Condemns Nigerian Law School\u2019s Ban On Baba-Ahmed\u2019s Baze University Law Faculty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The NNPP has since filed a notice of appeal before the supreme court, seeking to quash the appellate court\u2019s judgment.<\/p>\n<p>The APC on the other hand has filed a cross-appeal at the apex court, challenging the lower court for refusing to hold that Yusuf submitted a forged certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).<\/p>\n<p>The notice of appeal was filed by Akin Olujinmi, APC\u2019s counsel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lower court erred in law when their lordships at page 11 of the judgement held thus: Now whether or not the 2nd Cross Respondent\u2019s Form EC9 exhibit qualifies as a certificate under Section 182[1] [j] of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 [as amended] isn\u2019t of any utilitarian benefit or value to the cross-appellant,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContrary to the holding of the lower court, a decision on it goes to the issue on non-qualification of the 2nd cross-respondent to contest the election in dispute in this appeal,\u201d the notice of appeal read.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"890536\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-1215179266\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/300x250b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abba Kabir Yusuf The All Progressives Congress (APC) has filed a cross-appeal challenging the judgment of the Abuja Appeal Court for failing to disqualify Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State, from contesting the March 18 election over an alleged certificate forgery. Recall that in September, the State governorship election petition tribunal sacked Yusuf, candidate of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>APC Files Cross-Appeal, Insists Gov. 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