The win of the current Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Abubakar Luggerewo, was declared invalid on Tuesday by the Election Petitions Tribunal, which is based in Gombe State.
Luggerewo is the House representative for Akko Central.
With regard to the annulment of results in polling units 001, 024, and 014 in Kumo East, which purportedly gave the All Progressives Congress an advantage, Bashir Abdullahi of the Peoples Democratic Party had taken Luggerewo of the All Progressives Congress and the Independent National Electoral Commission to the tribunal.
Luggerewo was recently announced as the Zonal Vice Chairman, North-East of the Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria and Chairman of the North-East Speakers Forum.
Justice Michael Ugar, in his ruling held that the cancellation of the polling units 001, 024 and 014 of Kumo units by the Independent National Electoral Commission were in error.
The tribunal while passing judgement said, “a rerun within the next 30 days of judgement in Kumo East 018 to ascertain the actual winner between Luggerewo of the All Progressive Congress and Bashir Abdullahi, of the Peoples Democratic Party.”
In a telephone interview with our correspondent, Luggerewo who sounded unruffled, assured that the party would appeal the judgement.
When asked if he followed the tribunal’s ruling he said, “I was not at the court but I was briefed.”
On the next move, Luggerewo said, “The next line of action is we are going to appeal.”