KANO GUBER RERUN: AFTER THE LONG BATTLE, APC, GANDUJE DECLARED WINNER
Afnews Editor
Mar 24, 2019
Governor Umar Ganduje of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has won the controversial Kano State governorship election.
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Ganduje won with a margin of less than 9,000 votes after the collation of figures for the supplementary elections held on March 23, 2019.
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Kibiya and Nasarawa Local Government Areas had delayed the final collation till now.
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The results for the LGAs in the supplementary elections were declared on Sunday evening.
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For Kibiya LGA, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Abba Yusuf polled 228 votes, while the APC polled 371 votes.
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For Nasarawa LGA, APC secured a whopping 10,536 votes against 3,409 votes secured by the PDP.
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After checks by the returning officer, valid votes stood at 14,048; rejected votes were 376, while total votes cast were 14,424.
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So, at the end of the supplementary elections held in 28 LGAs on March 23, PDP polled a total of 10,239 votes against 45,876 votes secured by APC.
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Before the elections were declared inconclusive after the March 9 governorship election, PDP was leading with 1,014,474 votes, while APC had secured 987,819 votes.
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However, after the March 23 governorship election, the total figures for APC stood at 1,033,695 votes against 1,024,713 votes secured by PDP, meaning Ganduje won with a margin of 8,982 votes.
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Four polling units were cancelled in Gama Ward in Nasarawa LGA due to incidents of over voting and violence. A total of 2,639 votes were cancelled.
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