The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has declared Abdullahi Ganduje, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State, winner of the governorship election.
Bello Shehu, the Returning Officer, announced on Sunday that Ganduje polled a total of 1,033,695 as against his closest rival, Abba Yusuf of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who got 1,024,713 votes after votes from the supplementary election was added to that of the March 9.
The results come amidst reports of violence as hoodlums reportedly invaded about six Polling Units in Nasarawa Local Government Area of the state on Saturday.
The area was said to have been targeted because of the huge number of voters.
INEC had on March 11, declared the governorship election in the state inconclusive, saying that the margin between the two candidates was not enough to declare a winner.
Incumbent governor, Ganduje, was about 27,000 votes behind when elections at more than 200 polling stations in the state were cancelled two weeks ago because of violence.
But after a re-run in the affected areas, the APC candidate got 36,000 more votes than Yusuf.
The PDP has, however, rejected the results, saying its candidate, Yusuf, is the rightful winner of the election.
In a statement by the party’s spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, he insisted that its candidate had won the election since March 9, having fulfilled the constitutional requirement of securing the highest number of votes and the statutory 25 per cent in two-thirds of the state.
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