JOSEPH TINE TUR, J.C.A.(Delivering the Leading Judgment): On the 14th day of April, 2007 the Independent National Electoral Commission conducted elections into the State House of Assembly in respect of Warawa Constituency in Warawa Local Government Area of Kano State.
The Peoples Democratic Party sponsored Honourable Labaran Abdul while the All Nigerian Peoples Party had Hon. Garba as candidate. Other contestants were Bello K. Gopel (A.C); Kabiru A.G./Dau (DPP) and Engineer Isa Abubakar (PAC). At the end of voting the Commission returned Hon. Labaran Abdul of the Peoples Democratic Party at the duly elected member of the State House of Assembly who had polled 6,524 votes while Hon. Isa Garba of the All Nigerian Peoples Party polled 6,257 votes. Bello K. Gopel 4,242; Kabiru A.G./Dau - 47; Engineer Isa Abubakar 234; and Kabiru Abdul (DPP) 87 votes respectively. Being aggrieved by this return. Hon. Isa Garba and the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) jointly petitioned the Governorship an…