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Ajadi Congratulates Kano NNPP Reps Member, Zakari Over Appeal Court Victory
A Chieftain of the New Nigeria People’s Party, (NNPP), Ambassador Olufemi Ajadi Oguntoyinbo has congratulated a member of the Federal House of Representatives representing Tarauni Federal Constituency, Kano State, Umar Mukhtari Zakari of the NNPP over his victory at the Court of Appeal in Abuja on Saturday describing the victory as the restoration of the wishes of the people.
This is as he assured the Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf that the Court of Appeal will also do justice in his case and would upturn the judgement of the Kano state Governorship Election Tribunal that nullified his election.
It could be recalled that the Court of Appeal in Abuja on Saturday set aside the judgment by the National and State Houses of Assembly Tribunal in Kano, which voided the election of Umar Mukhtari Zakari.
A three-member of the court, in a judgment upheld the arguments by lawyer to Zakari and the NNPP, Mahmud Magaji (SAN) that the tribunal erred in law in reaching its decision.
In the lead judgment by Justice Obande Ogbuinya, the Court of Appeal held that the tribunal was wrong to have concluded that Zakari forged his credentials, when the petitioners failed to establish their claim to that effect.
Zakari was declared winner of the election, which held on February 25, 2023, amd which Ibrahim Hafiz Kawu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) challenged with a petition dated March 17, 2023.
The petitioners had claimed that Zakari purportedly forged the Housawa Special Primary School certificate, which he presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) because the name on it was simply; “Muktar Umar.”
The Court of Appeal, in its judgment on Saturday, held that the respondents, who were petitioners at the tribunal, failed to prove that Zakari was not the same person who attended the school and was awarded the certificate and therefore set aside the judgment of the tribunal, allowed the appeal and affirmed Zakari’s election.
In a statement on Sunday, Ambassador Olufemi Ajadi Oguntoyinbo described Zakari’s victory as the restoration of people’s wish.
Oguntoyinbo said that the victory has reinforced the belief that the judiciary is the last hope of the common man, saying that the court has restored the hope of the people of Tarauni Federal Constituency, who elected Zakari as their representative to the National Assembly.
He congratulated Zakari and urged him to, in the next four years, do his best to enrich Nigeria’s constitutional development, provide good representation for the people of Tarauni and also carried out the lofty ideals of NNPP.
Ajadi however, said the Kano state Governorship Election Tribunal’s judgement which upturned Yusuf’s victory is nothing but a miscarriage of justice.
According to him, “The judgement is a huge joke. Abba Yusuf was given the mandate to govern Kano State by the people of the state willingly and it is only the people that can withdraw such mandate from him. The will of the people will prevail at the end of the day.
“Our party, the NNPP has about 26 members in the House of Assembly, while APC has 14. Their elections were conducted on the same day with the governorship election.
“The party won in almost all the local government areas of the state. So where did the Tribunal derive the victory it gives the APC Candidate?” Ajadi queried.
Ajadi called on Yusuf, the people of Kano State and Nigerians in general to remain calm and be law abiding, saying that the judgement will be reversed at the Court of Appeal.
He called on Governor Abba Yusuf to be calm and continue with his good works, saying that the people of Kano State are solidly behind him.
Ajadi said that NNPP as a party, is not disturbed by the judgement because, according to him, ”everybody is aware that NNPP is the leading political party in Kano and that the judgement is temporary.”
He equally expressed his unalloyed support and respect for the presidential candidate of the party, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwakwanso and praised him “for the matured way he has been piloting the affairs of the party.”
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