Kwankwaso's NNPP wins Kano

Abba Kabir Yusuf, governorship candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has been declared the winner of the governorship election in the state.

Yusuf defeated Nasir Yusuf Gawuna of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who polled 890,705 to come second.

He polled 1,019,602.

The INEC Returning Officer for the election, Prof. Ahmad Doko Ibrahim declared the results at the Kano Collation Centre, INEC headquarters in Kano.

Yusuf defeated Yusuf Gawuna with a margin of over 128,897 votes.

The candidate of the People Democratic Party (PDP), Muhammad Abacha, got 15,957 votes while that of the Labour Party, Ishaq Bashir, scored 5,409 votes while the candidate of the People Redemption Party (PRP), Salihu Tanko, got 2,183 votes.

Kano has 5,921,370 registered voters, out of which 2,329,055 voters were accredited for the governorship election.

Total valid votes: 1,977,872
Rejected votes: 27,092
Total votes cast: 2,084

Margin of victory: 128,897

Total incidences of 195 across
38 LGA
180 RAs
385 PUs
253,060 PVC collected affected