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Just in: Court of Appeal upturns disqualification of Kano PDP's guber candidate

- Court of Appeal has cleared the Kano PDP's candidate, Abba Yusuf, to contest Saturday, March 9, election

- The court granted a stay of execution of the order of a high court which barred the PDP from recognising Yusuf as candidate

- Yusuf, however, urged his supporters to keep their hope alive and vote for him massively on the election day

Abba Yusuf, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Abba Yusuf, has been cleared by the Court of Appeal to participate in Saturday, March 9 governorship election in the state.

Premium Times reports that the court presided by Justice Daniel Kalio granted all the prayers put forward by the appellant.

Legit.ng gathered that the court granted a stay of execution of the order of a high court which barred the PDP from recognising Yusuf as candidate.

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It was reported that the high court ruling was followed by an application by an aggrieved PDP governorship aspirant, Mohammed El-Amin. The high court ruled in favour of El-Amin and ordered the PDP to conduct fresh primaries.

A statement on Thursday evening, March 7, by the spokesperson of PDP governorship candidate, Sanusi Dawakintofa, said the party sought a stay of execution on the previous judgement passed by a Federal High Court in Kano on the validity of the party’s October 2, 2018 primaries.

The statement added that the Court of Appeal also restrained INEC from removing the name of Yusuf and other PDP candidates from the list of 2019 contest.

Responding shortly after the verdict, Yusuf said he is not surprised with the outcome from the appeal court.

“As I always mention, the case mainly concerns our party and an aggrieved member who is working with the ruling All Progressive Party (APC) in the state to remedy the fast growing unpopularity of Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.”

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Yusuf called on supporters of PDP to keep their hopes alive and come out enmass to vote for the party’s candidates.

Yusuf is considered the main challenger to incumbent governor Umar Ganduje of the APC.

Meanwhile, Legit.ng had previously reported that the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Thursday, March 7, upturned the disqualification of the APC governorship candidate in Taraba state, Sani Danladi.

A Federal High Court sitting in Jalingo, Taraba state, had disqualified the APC gubernatorial candidate from contesting the March 9 governorship election.

It was reported that the ruling, according to the court was based on alleged falsification of age in the documents which the APC governorship candidate supplied to the Independent National Electoral Commission.

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