PDP kicks against Appeal Court verdict on Ganduje’s election, vows to retrieve ‘stolen mandate’

The Kano State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has kicked against the Appeal Court’s decision affirming the election of Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje as the duly elected governor of the state.

In a press statement signed and issued by Sanusi Bature Dawakin-Tofa, spokesman to PDP governorship candidate, Engr. Abba K. Yusuf, on Friday, the PDP said it “received with colossal hysteria” the decision of the Court dismissing its Appeal to the decision of the Tribunal.

The party also informed that its legal team would study the Appeal Court’s decision after which it will take a decisive action as appropriate to ensure retrieval of what it described as the stolen mandate of the good people of Kano.

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The statement by the PDP reads; “Our legal team is currently reviewing the judgment after which we will take a decisive action as appropriate to ensure retrieval of the stolen mandate of the good people of Kano.

“We will not relent on our efforts to secure justice and fairness to the electorates, who were out massively to cast their votes on Saturday, 9th March, 2019 and those that were harassed, intimidated, maimed, killed or disenfranchised during the March 23rd supplementary elections.

“We want to use this opportunity, to appreciate our teaming supporters who have been praying intensively for our success in this legal battle, while reminding them on the need to remain calm as we have no state other than Kano, the peace of our dear state is paramount.

“We have hope in the judiciary, though that does not mean we will not face hiccups in the judicial process; therefore the struggle is now at the most critical stage”, the party noted.

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