Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been declared winner of the rerun governorship election in Kano State by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Announcing the result on Sunday, INEC resident electoral commissioner, Prof. Bello Shehu, said Ganduje garnered 1,033,695 votes while his closest challenger, Abba Kabir, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scored 1,024,713.
Shehu said that the APC candidate defeated the PDP candidate with 8,982 votes margin and therefore declared Ganduje the winner having satisfied requirements of the law by scoring the highest number of votes.
According to him, the winner was declared after the collation of result from all the affected 28 local government areas where the supplementary elections was conducted on Saturday March 23.
He said Ganduje polled a total of 45,876 while Kabir of the PDP got 10,239 votes during the last Saturday’s supplementary elections in 28 local government areas of the state.
The governorship election was earlier declared inconclusive following the high number of cancellation of votes as a result of violence and over-voting.
According to the collation officer, the total number of votes cancelled during the earlier election which led to the declaration of the poll as inconclusive was beyond the margin between the PDP candidate who was leading with 26,000 votes and that of the APC candidate.
Kabir had 1,014,474 against Ganduje who garnered 987,819 votes in the March 9 election.
The votes cancelled during the exercise was 128,572.
