Ganduje wins Kano guber polls

Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje has won re-election in Kano State, overcoming the main challenger, Abba Kabir-Yusuf of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by 8982 votes, after the supplementary elections held on Saturday.

Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje

According to the result announced by the returning officer, Ganduje of the All Progressives Congress  (APC)

polled 1,033,695 votes while Kabir-Yusuf got 1,024,713 votes.

The PDP agent reportedly walked out of the collation centre before the announcement of the result.

Before the supplementary election, the PDP candidate had 1,014,474 votes, while Ganduje got 987,819 votes.

In the supplementary elections held in polling units in 28 LGAs, Ganduje got an upper-hand,
winning 45,876 votes while the PDP candidate got 10,239 votes.

Ganduje was declared the winner having satisfied requirements of the law by scoring the highest number of votes.

Meanwhile, the PDP Chairman in Kano, Alhaji Suleiman Rabiu – Bichi has rejected the entire re-run election, especially that of Gama in Nassarawa Local Government Area.

The PDP Chairman further described the election processes as shameful and called for the immediate cancellation of the exercise.

According to him, the party will not accept the result. It therefore refused to sign it.