The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on Thursday has sacked the Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani of All Progressives Congress, APC.

The court also declared that the 2023 governorship election in the state is inconclusive . The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the 2023 election, Isah Ashiru had filed a petition against the victory of the governor.

Senator Sani polled a total of 730,001 votes to defeat his closest rival Ashiru who scored 719, 196 votes.

The Labour Party (LP) candidate, Jonathan Asake came a distant third with 58,283 votes, while Suleiman Hunkuyi of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) scored 21,405 votes.

The electoral body, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC consequently declared Uba Sani the winner of the governorship election

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However, while the LP and NNPP accepted the outcome of the election, the PDP and its candidate rejected the results of the election, alleging that the Independent National Electoral Commission declared the wrong candidate winner of the election.

PDP and Ashiru alleged that there was massive irregularities and manipulation of results in favour of Governor Sani in some local governments by the INEC.

According to them, Senator Sani did not score the highest number of valid votes cast in the election and ought not to have been returned winner of the election by the INEC.

Delivering a judgment via Zoom on Thursday, the tribunal instructed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct a supplementary election within 90 days in 7 wards across 4 Local Government Areas.