Reactions have continued to trail the removal of Emeka Ihedioha as Governor of Imo State and subsequent replacement by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Hope Uzodimma by the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

This dismissal has sent shivers down the spines of other governors with cases pending at the Apex court.

Following the tensed political atmosphere and the cloud of uncertainty that has enveloped the political terrain, TheNigerian organised an opinion poll calling on its readers to vote for the next possible governor who they feel may suffer the same fate.

The poll which was organised on Thursday, 16th of January 2020, with four governors including Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State, Governor Umar Ganduje of Kano State and Govenror Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State on the list generated comments aplenty with majority voting Ganduje out.

These commenters hinged their views on the basis that the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Abba K.Yusuf had won the election and that the rerun election which later granted victory to the incumbent, Ganduje was needless.

Engr Buba Galadima, a former ally of President Muhammadu Buhari who served as the National Secretary of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) didn’t partake in the poll but leads the bandwagon hoping the Kano State governor slips under the rails.

The elder statesman noted that “What has happened is that the Supreme Court has now tied itself because how can they do that to Emeke Ihedioha and refuse Abba Kabiru Yusuf in Kano? It was exactly what had happened in Kano.

“If an election had to be canceled, it has to be at the polling unit level according to the Supreme Court.

“But in Kano, the votes were not canceled at the polling unit; they were not canceled at the ward level but they were canceled at the local level.

So, it goes without saying that Ganduje is gone, and anything to the contrary, Nigeria will see the fire”.

But while reacting to Galadima’s claims, the coordinator of Governor Ganduje’s legal team, Barrister Mohammad Abdullahi Lawan, contended that the view of Galadima was absolutely no correlation between the facts and circumstances of Ihedioha.

“In the former (Ihedioha case), whilst there was glaring evidence of the cancellation of results by officials other than the presiding officers, in the later case (Governor Ganduje) there was no evidence of such cancellation by officials order than the presiding officers,” Lawan said.

“Instead, there was proven evidence in the Governor Ganduje case, that the cancellation of some of the 207 polling units were carried out by the respective INEC Polling Unit Presiding Officers as was clearly depicted in the numerous Form ECG 40s tendered and admitted in evidence without any objections by the Petitioners.

“Again, in the Ganduje case, there was the inability of the INEC to collate the results of 62 polling units in Gama ward comprising of over 48,000 registered voters in an election with a lead margin of only 26,000 votes!

It will be recalled that Engr Abba K Yusuf of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP scored 1,014474 votes to gap Ganduje of the All Progressives Congress, APC who scored 987, 819 votes with 26,655 margin before the election was declared inconclusive by the independent Nationa Electoral Commission, INEC.

However, Ganduje of the APC was later declared winner of the election after he was reported to have polled 1,033,695 against Engr Abba K Yusuf who polled 1,024,713 at the rerun election which held on the 24th of March 2019.

TheNigerian Poll: Readers want Ganduje removed by Supreme Court

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And who will remove me

But Nigeria isn't governed by online polls is it?

Nigerians abi yeasterners ?

Looks the whole household of sanusi actually voted

if yeyebello can win expect another kind of story

Opinion polls don't count.
Many massively voted against the General in the opinion poll but you know the real story...we are still stuck with the old man for the next three years.

Under this regime, removal and elections are done by the supreme Court judges, INEC exists for the sake of formality.

helinues:
Nigerians abi yeasterners ?

You are too bitter and tribalistic.

Groundnutrohr:
His removal is long over due

U b Kano man?