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Akinwande Soji-Ojo
The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) candidate, Abba Yusuf, has been declared winner of the Kano State governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Yusuf defeated Nasiru Gawuna of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Gawuna, who is the current deputy governor of the state, is Abdullahi Ganduje’s anointed candidate, while Yusuf is supported by Rabiu Kwankwaso, former governor of the state and presidential candidate of the NNPP.
Ahmad Dokko Ibrahim, the returning officer for the state, who announced the result on Monday morning said that Yusuf won the election with 1,019,602 votes, while Gawuna got 890,705 votes.
Yusuf contested against Ganduje in 2019 in what was regarded as a very controversial election, which went into supplementary polls.
At the end of the first election, Yusuf was leading Ganduje with 26,655 votes. Yusuf, who was at the time the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate polled 1,014,474 votes while Ganduje got 987,819 votes.
INEC then announced supplementary elections in 28 out of the 44 local government areas in the state.
Ganduje eventually won by scoring 45,876 votes while Yusuf polled just 10,239 in the supplementary poll, thereby undoing his victory in the state.
At the end of the supplementary election, Ganduje polled 1,033,695 votes while Yusuf han 1,024,713 votes.
Kano govt imposes dawn-to-fusk curfew
Meanwhile, Kano State Government has imposed dawn-to-dusk curfew with a view to avoid a breakdown of law and order, following tensions generated from the collation of results of the governorship and state assembly elections.
The Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Muhammad Garba, made the announcement in a statement issued on Monday morning.
He said the decision was to prevent hoodlums from causing chaos, adding that the atmosphere is already tensed.
The commissioner called on residents of the state to remain indoors as security agents would not spare anyone or group bent on causing trouble.