Kano Guber: PDP agents walk out as INEC declares Ganduje winner

Agents of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) walked out of the collation center in Kano ahead of the announcement of the winner of the governorship election.

The results of the last two local government areas delaying the collation have been released with Abdullahi Ganduje of All Progressives Congress (APC) maintaining a clear lead.

Ganduje, who contested on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), won with a margin of more than 9,000 votes after the collation of figures for the supplementary elections held on March 23, 2019.

Two local government areas had delayed the final collation till now: Kibiya and Nasarawa LGAs.

However, the results for the LGAs in supplementary elections were declared on Sunday evening, the results for both LGAs were announced.

For Kibiya LGA, Abba Yusuf, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 228 votes, while the All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 371 votes.

For Nasarawa LGA, APC secured a whopping 10,536 votes against 3,409 votes secured by the PDP.

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.

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.

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.

Speaking to reporters after angrily walking out of the collation room, Rabi’u Bichi, PDP chairman in Kano, described the election as a sham.