The Kano state returning officer for the governorship election, Bello Shehu, has finally declared incumbent governor of the state, Abdullahi Ganduje of the All Progressives Congress, APC, winner of the 2019 governorship election in the state.
He polled a total of 1,033,695 votes from the March 9 and 23 elections to defeat his closest challenger Abba Yusuf of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who garnered 1,024,713, winning with a margin of 8,982.
Declaring the winner of the election, Shehu Ganduje having satisfied the requirements of the law by scoring the highest number of votes was declared winner.
According to Shehu, the winner was declared after the collation of results from all the affected 28 local government areas where the supplementary elections was conducted on Saturday, March 23.
He said Ganduje polled a total of 45,876, while Kabir of the PDP got 10,239 votes during last Saturday’s supplementary elections in 28 local government areas of the state.
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The Kano State governorship election was among those declared inconclusive after the March 9 elections following the high number of cancelled votes.
According to the collation officer, the total number of votes cancelled during the earlier election which led to the declaration of the poll as inconclusive was more than the margin of difference between the PDP candidate who was leading with 26,000 votes and that of the APC candidate.
Yusuf had 1,014,474 while Ganduje had 987,819 votes in the March 9 election.
Meanwhile, the Kano state chairman of the PDP, Suleiman Rabiu-Bichi, has rejected the entire re-run election, especially that of Gama in Nassarawa local government area.
The PDP chairman described the election processes as “shameful” and called for the immediate cancellation of the exercise.