Gov Ganduje Of APC Scales Through Huddles To Secure Second Term In Kano

After days of anxiety and uncertainty, the governor of Kano State, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje has finally made it to a second term on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) today, Sunday, declared him the winner of the governorship supplementary election held yesterday, Saturday. The governor had earlier lost the first election held on March 9 by a slim margin, but his total votes in the two polls put him ahead of his main challenger, the candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Abba Yusuf.

Before the supplementary election, Abba Yusuf was leading Ganduje with about 26,000 votes after he polled 1,014,474 votes to Mr Ganduje’s 987,819 votes, leaving a difference of 26,655 votes.

In the supplementary election held in 28 out of the 44 local government areas in the state, Ganduje won by scoring 45,876 votes to Mr Yusuf’s 10,239 thereby up turning the result in his favour, INEC said.

The State Returning Officer, Professor Bello Shehu, announced that Ganduje scored a total vote of 1,033,695 while Abba Yusuf polled 1,024,713. He made the announcement at the headquarters of INEC in Kano.

The winning margin is 8,982 between the two major candidates.