Supreme Court verdict: Kwankwaso ignorant of judicial process ― Ganduje

KANO State government has described the recent move by the former governor, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, to seek a review of the Supreme Court’s verdict on Kano governorship election as an act of ignorance to the judicial procedure and a waste of resources.

It would be recalled that the former governor had last week led the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s stakeholders in Kano to the party’s secretariat in Abuja where he urged its National Chairman, Uche Secondus, to call for the review of the Supreme Court ruling in the state.

However, while reacting the state government, in a statement by the Kano commissioner for information Muhammad Garba, on Sunday, a copy made available to pressmen said: “Kwankwaso’s call is a clear testimony of his total obliviousness on the jurisdictional procedures that affirmed Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje as elected governor.”

He stated that it was very surprising that Kwankwaso is calling for such review on no grounds considering their glaring defeat and acceptance of the same.

He said the senator who is quoted to have claimed “voter disenfranchisement and manipulation of judicial processes” in the Kano case is just being driven by his mawkishness and by the recent development in Imo and Bayelsa states, which scenarios are in no way comparable.

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The commissioner disclosed that while some legal practitioners are looking at technical issues on the two cases in Kano it is entirely a different game.

He said the petitioner, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Kano failed to either substantively provide evidence that there was any irregularity in the election held on March 9 or produce direct evidence to prove to the courts that they were not defeated in the March 23 supplementary election.

His words: “What the Supreme Court ruled was the affirmation of the judgement of the tribunal and Court of Appeal. That is to say, the PDP failed woefully to prove their case and that is the substance of the case. Therefore, there is no basis what so ever for review of the Kano case.”

The commissioner stated that this move is a failed agitation and part of a strategy to keep his disillusioned supporters to continue to remain hopeful and to divert the attention of the government which is focused on the execution of laudable development programmes particularly now that all litigations are over.

He expressed optimism that the judiciary would not allow itself to be pushed to the path of anarchy in a futile attempt to subvert justice.

Garba also called on the people of Kano State to shun the frolics of self-centred politicians who are always bent on heating up the polity to their disadvantage.