The Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has described the leader of the controversial Reformed All Progressive Congress (RAPC) who is also a stunt critic of President Buhari, Buba Galadima as a person suffering from political dysfunction.
Ganduje made the statement in a wake of where Buba Galadima has called on the Supreme Court to mate the same treatment former Governor Emeka Ihedioha has suffered in Imo state claiming the APC were caged in a similar scenario in Kano state.
However, Ganduje slammed Galadima’s claim as baseless and lacking merit, saying Buba Galadima is suffering from a political dysfunction and people should disregard him.
Galadima told Journalist in Abuja that the technicalities that were used to upturn the Imo state election by the apex Court which declared Hope Uzodinma as the duly elected Governor of Imo state on Tuesday is tied to the cancellation of vote which also happened in Kano state to Abba Yusuf of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
In a swift reaction, Governor Ganduje through his counsel team leader, Barrister Mohammed Abdullahi Lawan, refuted the claim of Galadima saying the two scenarios are entirely different in all ramifications. He said the point the PDP are hinging their argument has exposed them to be completely ignorant of the law.
In a statement made available to journalists, Barrister Lawan explained that, “in the case of Ihedioha, there was overwhelming evidence that there was cancellation of results by some group of people who are not by law empowered to do so, however, in the case of Ganduje, no results were cancelled by anybody other than the authority who have the power to do so by law, i.e the presiding officer. There was evidence in the case of Ganduje where cancellation were made in the 207 [polling units, it was done by the presiding officers who are permitted by law to do so and were explicitly indicated in the form ECG 40s tendered and admitted as evidence in the court and without objection by the petitioner.
“More so, in the Ganduje case, there was the inability of the INEC to collate the results of 62 polling units in Gama ward comprising of over 48,000 registered voters in an election with a lead margin of only 26,000 votes! What is worse is that the disruption of the collation of the said results was caused by the PDP agent, one Dr Yakasai who testified as PW30. He admitted that whilst the said results were being collated, a commotion arose and he carted away the original Results of INEC and hid himself in a room for over one hour with a Biro with him! He kept the sensitive INEC documents in his custody for another hour before allegedly taking the said documents to the Kano Commissioner of Police instead of INEC.
Lawan further explained, “In the end, only twelve of those results were tendered in court by the Police. How on earth was the INEC supposed to collate the said results? Could the INEC have declared in an inconclusive election and thus disenfranchise over 48,000 voters in an election where the lead margin is only 26,000 votes. Finally the so called expert witness called by PDP admitted on oath that after his study of all the results, he agreed with the INEC cancellation of the results of 77 polling units on the basis of over voting. This in law is an admission against interest which the various courts are obliged by law to accept and which the two lower courts accepted”.
Consequently, he called on the public to dismiss Galadima’s claim, describing it as fallacious and misleading.
He reiterated Ganduje’s conviction on the credibility and hope that the apex court shall use the evidence before it, calling on the general public to disregard PDP claim that the Supreme Court is under pressure to do otherwise.
