Hours after the Kano State election tribunal removed Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of the New Nigeria Peoples Party from office, traders in the main markets of Kano shut down their shops and hurriedly returned home.
The tribunal has declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) Nasiru Gawuna as the duly elected governor of the state.
Some of the places where traders suspended activities were Sabon Gari, Kantin Kwari and Singer markets.
When newsmen visited the biggest shopping mall in the metropolis, the Ado Bayero Mall (ShopRite), they found it shut.
Yusuf, who contested on the platform of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), was declared winner of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
While Nasir Gawuna, his APC rival congratulated him, the party proceeded to court.
On Wednesday, the three-man panel ordered withdrawal of certificate of return which INEC presented to Governor Yusuf and directed a certificate of return to be issued to Gawuna.
The court deducted 165,663 votes from Gov Yusuf total as invalid votes, stating that the ballot papers (165,663) were not stamped or signed and therefore declared invalid.
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