 The Kanu governorship election Petition Tribunal has sacked Governor Abhakabir Yusuf declaring the all-progressive Congress A-PC candidate Nasseru Gawuna as the winner of the March 18 election. Yusuf, who contested on the platform of the New Nigeria People's Party, NNPP, was declared the winner of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, after the poll in March. But on Wednesday, the three-man panel after hearing the Petitions ordered the withdrawal of the Certificate of Return with INEC, which INEC presented to Yusuf and directed the Certificate of Return to be issued to Gawuna. The court deducted 165,663 votes from Yusuf's total as invalid votes, stating that the affected biologists were not stamped or signed and therefore declared invalid. The ruling comes about six months after the A-PC candidate conceded defeat to Yusuf in the wake of INEC's presentation of the Certificate of Return to the NNPP candidate. In a two-minute audio statement on March 29, Gawuna stated that, as a good Muslim, he was compelled to accept the outcome of the election, whether it was in his favor or not. He added that although his campaign team had requested a review of the election results by INEC, upon review, the commission had found Yusuf to be the winner of the election. We have demonstrated it by bringing in invalid ballot papers, 165,000 of the ballot papers and the court went through these ballot papers one after the other and confirmed that these ballot papers were not signed, stamped and dated and the law says it shall be signed, stamped and dated. So all these three must be there. To clear the candidate of the petitioner as a winner of the election, even though it's not a party to the matter. There are so many things in the matter, but the Tribunal has said it's on. We are going to conduct our client and then I can assure you that we are going to appeal against this decision and I can assure you that this decision will not stand at the court of appeal because the law is very very clear that the Tribunal cannot enter as a witness in them.