The Supreme Court of Nigeria has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to replace Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau with Rufai Hanga as the Senator-elect for Kano Central Senatorial District.
INEC has on February 25 announced Shekarau as the winner of the election in the district.
But in a judgement on Friday delivered by Justice Uwani Abba-Aji, the court upheld the decision of the Appeal Court that was delivered in January.
Shekarau won the New Nigerian People’s Party ticket in June but he dumped the party later after falling out with the presidential candidate of the NNPP, Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.
He at that point announced his intentions to abandon his ambition on the platform of the NNPP.