INEC chairman, Yakubu MahmoodControversy over the weekend trailed alleged withdrawal of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from appealing the judgment of the Kano Governorship Election Petition Tribunal at the Court of Appeal.
A copy of the letter in circulation and going viral read, “I have been instructed by the Commission Headquarters that INEC as an umpire have no reason to appeal any judgment. After some hours, the same Head of Legal Department told newsmen that he had withdrawn the earlier letter written to the tribunal.