UPDATED: INEC declares Ganduje winner of Kano rerun
The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Kano State Governor Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress as winner of the just- concluded supplementary re-run poll.
He said that the registered voters stood at 5,426,989,accredited voters ,2,268,305,while the valid votes cast is 2,199,535,with rejected votes of 50,861,adding that,the total vote cast is 2,242,396.According to Shehu, the winner was declared after the collation of result from all the 28 affected Local Government Areas where the supplementary elections were conducted on Saturday.
He said the governorship election was earlier declared inconclusive following the high number of cancellation of votes as a result of violence and over voting. The PDP candidate, Abba Kabir Yusuf, was declared to have 1,014,474, against the APC candidate Gov Ganduje who garned 987,819 votes before the supplementary poll.
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