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General News of Monday, 20 March 2023

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Angry mob destroys APC candidate's billboard after NNPP's victory

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A video of supporters of Abba Kabir Yusuf, governorship candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) pulling down a billboard of the Nasir Yusuf Gawuna of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has emerged on social media.

This comes after Yusuf has announced the winner of the polls on Monday, March 20.

Yusuf polled 1,019,602 while Yusuf Gawuna polled 890,705 to come second.

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.