Nigeria: Tribunal Sacks Kebbi Governor

14 November 2011

Kebbi State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal Sunday annulled the April 26, governorship election earlier won by. Alhaji Saidu Dakingari

In declaring Dakingari winner of the election, the Independent National Elec-toral Commission (INEC) said the governor, who was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), scored 599,424 as against the 326,482 votes scored by the flag bearer of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Alhaji Abubakar Malam.

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