KANO: Victory for APC’s Dambazau as court upholds election

The Appeal Court has affirmed Shamsudeen Dambazau of the All Progressive Congress (APC) as the lawmaker representing Takai/Sumaila federal constituency election in Kano State.

Dambazau who is the son of former Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau, won his appeal against an earlier ruling of the Kano State Governorship and House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal, which sacked him and ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue a certificate of return to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Suraja Kanawa.

The Appeal Court ordered INEC to reinstate Dambazau as the representative of the Takai/Sumaila constituency.

The court held that Dambazau was the rightful winner of the March 2019 State Assembly election.

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Also, the appellate court held that the earlier ruling by the Tribunal was null and void given that it (the Tribunal) had no legal jurisdiction to entertain the petition

Dambazau did not contest the election but came second in the APC primaries. He got the mandate when a Federal High Court in Kano disqualified a former presidential aide, Kawu Sumaila, in a pre-election suit.

He was however sacked in August by the Election Petition Tribunal in Kano, Kano State. The tribunal had then ordered INEC to issue a certificate of return to Surajo Kanawa, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

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