The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday declared the governorship election in Kano State as inconclusive.
INEC returning officer for the election, Prof. Bibi Shehu, announced this shortly after the compilation of the results from 44 local government areas in the state.
According to him, the declaration of the election as inconclusive is in accordance with section 26 of the INEC Act.
Shehu said the number of cancelled votes is beyond the margin between the candidate with the highest votes and the one that came second.
He explained that the difference between the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Abba Kabir-Yusuf, who leads in the votes declared, and Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who came second, was 26,000 votes while the votes cancelled were 128,572.
Shehu added that INEC will fix a date to conduct election in 172 polling units where the election was cancelled due to disturbances, over voting and non-usage of the card reader machine.
The returning officer added that the election would also hold in Gama ward with over 40,000 registered voters whose result sheets got missing.
Shehu disclosed that PDP scored 1,014,474, and the APC had 987,819 votes, adding that 2,155,128 votes were recorded as valid and 49,761 rejected.
The returning officer said that the total registered voters in the state were 5,249, 989 while the total accredited voters were 2,211,528 and the total votes cast were 2,184,889.
