The Kano State Government has slammed the Appeal Court’s explanation that the error in the Certified True Copy (CTC) of its judgment on the state’s governorship election was merely a typographical mistake, branding it as “outrageously scandalous.”
The court had initially declared the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s Nasiru Gawuna as the winner of the March poll, effectively sacking Governor Abba Yusuf. However, a CTC of the judgment surfaced on Wednesday, showing that Yusuf’s victory was reinstated.
While the court attempted to rectify the situation by attributing the discrepancy to a typo error, Kano State Justice Commissioner Haruna Dederi rejected this explanation, deeming such a development “scandalous.”
“What is a typographical error?” Dederi questioned during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily. “Does it affect one word? Does it affect two words? Does it affect three words? How can a typographical error affect whole paragraphs? This is something that cannot be accepted by any discernible mind as I have said.”
Expressing deep dissatisfaction with the court’s explanation, Dederi declared, “This is something that is outrageously scandalous and it cannot be accepted. We are not satisfied.”
The Justice Commissioner, who affirmed that the controversy surrounding the judgment has been elevated to the Supreme Court, expressed confidence that “it would be resolved there.”
Despite the Appeal Court’s clarification, Dederi maintained that the CTC that has been circulating is “the only version we have as the judgment of the Court of Appeal.”
“There is no corrected version,” he said, adding that the claims of a typo error in the CTC “is not tenable. It cannot be accepted.”
What a big mess to our judiciary