Immediately after the ruling of the Election Petition Tribunal that sat in Sokoto the ruling counsel to the petitioner Barrister Jibril Osa Owadeye said that they will appeal because they were not satisfied with the verdict.

It could be recalled that the Pointer Express in November reported that the aggrieved petitioner in response to a question by a BBC Hausa correspondent confirmed that they had already taken steps towards appealing and also expressed dissatisfaction with the ruling of the Tribunal.

At the Court of Appeal Kaduna after the appeal had been filed, the ruling of the Elections Petitions Tribunal was set aside and the case of the DPP was reviewed. Wammakko was charged for double nomination and cross-carpeting, which is contrary to section 187(1) of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He was also said to have claimed renouncing the membership of ANPP for PDP on 31st January 2007 but later attended the ANPP meeting of national Consensus on the 7th of February of the same year.

Also his presence in the PDP was not enough time for him to have contested for the gubernatorial election. This is because the ethics provides that he has to be in the party for at least a period of 2 years to be able to contest for governorship.

Although the Appeal Court refused and declared as invalid the evidences filled by the appellants that the Head of Legal Services Department of INEC had discovered that the said letters produced by the former Sokoto governor Alu Wammakko offering him a waiver allowing him to contest contrary to the party rules was fake. Ahmadu Ali in a reply to the department declared that he did not write the letters and were forgery. That during the period the letters were claimed to have been written, he was on a tour to the Northeast zone.

The Appeal Court being led by Hon Justice Ahmad Balgore sitting in Kaduna finally declared the election nullified and ordered INEC to conduct a by-election in Sokoto within 90 days of the judgment. It was also ordered that the election should be between the same parties to the election.

Meanwhile as also ordered by the Appeal Court the Speaker of the Sokoto state Assembly has since been sworn in as the acting Governor.

In a separate development, the former governor of Sokoto Alu Wammakko has left behind the state in a very destructive social situation that has set the Muslims in a very critical circumstance. As a result of this over 130 members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria in Sokoto including the head of the Sokoto Center Malam Qasim Umar are still in jail in violation of their fundamental human rights, some have been killed and others made up of mostly women and children are now living in refuge in other northern states.

Wammakko had instituted a religious sectarian conflict that is generally advocated as Shiite/Sunni crisis in Sokoto as a result of which a lot of people's shops and houses have been demolished and their property looted all in the bid to satisfy his personal aggrandizement of becoming a governor.

Concerning the history of contemporary Islam in Nigeria, so far Wammakko is the worst thing that has ever happened to the state. A lot of calamities that include fire and diseases outbreaks as well as insecurity and lack of peace have befallen the state during his short reign as governor.

Charges of corruption have been leveled against Alu Wammakko and he has also been mentioned among the most corrupt new governors in Nigeria by the Sahara Reporters on Internet. Funds mismanagement, embezzlements and the refusal to pay some workers' entitlements for several months are some of the corrupt acts he is known for.

His tyrannical dispensation had led the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky (H) to invoke the curse of the God Almighty on the governor and the persistence of the governor has made the revered scholar to repeat the mention of the curse in various occasions.