The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, may declare the last Saturday’s governorship election in the state as inconclusive, following a likely stalemate in the fiercely contested polls.
DAILY NIGERIAN reports that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate, Abba Yusuf, polled 1,020,465 votes, against his closest rival, the incumbent governor of the state, Abdullahi Ganduje of the All Progressives Congress, APC, who scored 987,459 votes.
It was gathered that vote margin between the two contenders is 33,006 votes, which is below the number of votes cancelled in the election.
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There is ensuing dispute on whether Gama Ward, which has a total 49,761 registered voters, may be cancelled. Apart from Gama Ward, there are also pockets of cancellations in some other areas.
Section 26 and 53 of the Electoral Act 2010 as amended provides that supplementary elections be conducted in the affected local government areas in the next 21 days whenever there is cancellation.
Below are the results as presented by Collation Officers at the state Collation Centre, INEC office in Kano:
BEBEJI LGA
APC – 17,418
PDP – 18, 533
MADOBI LGA
APC – 24,491
PDP – 24, 309
MAKODA LGA
APC – 22,788
PDP – 9,253
KUNCHI LGA
APC – 16,157
PDP – 13,171
KARAYE LGA
APC – 18,770
PDP – 17, 163
KIBIYA LGA
APC – 15,760
PDP- 17373
ALBASU LGA
APC- 25,358
PDP – 18,401
GARKO LGA
APC – 16,952
PDP – 12,295
BUNKURE LGA
APC – 20,407
PDP – 20,222
RANO LGA
APC – 16,694
PDP – 14,892
DANBATTA LGA
APC – 24,686
PDP – 18,696
BAGWAI LGA
APC- 20,768
PDP- 18,511
TSANYAWA LGA
APC -21,972
PDP -11,501
TOFA LGA
APC – 17,506
PDP – 13,885
GWARZO LGA
APC – 27,015
PDP – 24,773
GABASAWA LGA
APC – 18,215
PDP – 14,679
SHANONO LGA
APC – 20,691
PDP – 14,503
KABO LGA
APC – 27,522
PDP – 16,233
SUMAILA LGA
APC – 23,934
PDP – 16,606
AJINGI LGA
APC – 17,711
PDP – 14,585
GEZAWA LGA
APC – 20,642
PDP – 24,151
BICHI LGA
APC – 31,958
PDP – 27,644
WARAWA LGA
APC – 14,599
PDP – 15,114
KIRU LGA
APC – 28,765
PDP – 27,868
RIMINGADO LGA
APC – 19,453
PDP – 13,777
GWALE LGA
APC – 23,871
PDP – 41,591
WUDIL LGA
APC 18,589
PDP – 18,220
TUDUN WADA LGA
APC – 27,917
PDP – 21,556
DOGUWA LGA
APC – 20,696
PDP – 12,642
DAWAKIN KUDU LGA
APC – 25,657
PDP – 30,901
MINJIBIR LGA
APC – 17,707
PDP – 17,952
GARUN MALAM LGA
APC – 14,765
PDP – 14,446
TARAUNI LGA
APC – 21,734
PDP – 35,314
GAYA LGA
APC- 19,202
PDP – 18,090
ROGO LGA
APC – 23,859
PDP – 27,342
UNGOGO LGA
APC – 26,843
PDP – 42,24
DAWAKIN TOFA LGA
APC- 32,945
PDP- 17,418
KURA LGA
APC – 22,390
PDP – 24,410
KUMBITSO LGA
APC- 24,751
PDP 40-417
KANO MUNICIPAL
APC – 32,394
PDP – 57,781
TAKAI LGA
APC – 19,070
PDP – 14,119
DALA LGA
APC – 32,530
PDP – 60,082
FAGGE LGA
APC – 18,370
PDP – 27,344
Nassarawa LGA
PDP – 54,349
APC – 34,297
