BY LEKAN BILESANMI

The affirmation of the election of Governor Saidu Usman Dakingari of Kebbi State by the Sokoto Division of the Court of Appeal has sparked wild jubilation in the state.

The people took to the streets in Birnin Kebbi, the state capital, after last Friday’s verdict of the court which dismissed the petition filed by the gubernatorial candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Mallam Abubakar Abubakar, challenging the declaration of Dakingari as governor by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Some of the people who jubilated believed that Dakingari had done “some good works in the state, saying that the case instituted by the CPC candidate in the Kebbi gubernatorial election was “needless distractions” to the governor’s resolve to deliver democracy dividends in the state.