
UPDATE: ABBA KABIR OF NNPP WINS KANO GOVERNORSHIP RACE
The governorship candidate of the New Nigeria People Party (NNPP) in Kano State, Abba Kabir, has been declared the winner of the governorship election in the state.
The NNPP candidate won with 1,019,602 votes to defeat the candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Nasiru Gawuna, who scored 890,705 votes. The NNPP candidate thus won with a margin of 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.
The returning officer, Ahmad Doko, declared Mr Kabir the winner Monday morning.
He also announced that 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.
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