The Independent National Electoral Commission has postponed the collation of Adamawa governorship election results from Local Government Areas till noon.
State Collation Officer, Prof. Mohammed Mele, and Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr Yakubu Ari, disclosed this on Monday, after the collation of results from 20 out of the 21 LGAs.
They noted that the exercise was postponed to enable verification of results from Fufore Local Government Area which were snatched.
Shortly before the shift, agents of both the Peoples’ Democratic Party and All Progressives Congress had urged INEC to ensure justice in the collation of the results before the declaration.
According to reports security agencies were also deployed to major roads in the state capital, following a protest by some political thugs in the metropolis after the adjournment.
Also,
Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday declared the governorship election in Kebbi as “inconclusive”.
The election was keenly contested by the two giant political parties, the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party.
Collation and Returning Officer of the election, Prof. Yusuf Sa’idu of the Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto, announced the position at the collation centre situated at INEC headquarters in Birnin Kebbi.
Prof. Sa’idu said there were cancellations in 20 of the 21 local government areas of Kebbi State cutting across a number of Registration areas in different polling units.
Sa’idu said: “We aggregated the total number of collected PVCs in those polling units and it came to a total of 91,829.
And when we checked the results, the two leading political parties in this contest, APC and PDP polled 388,258 and 342,980 votes respectively. When we look at the difference, it stands at 45,278.”
He noted that they had no option but to refer to the electoral laws on page 31 of the Electoral Act 2022, section 51 sub-sections 2 and 3 for guidance.
According to him, the law read, “Where the number of votes cast in an election in any polling unit exceeds the number of accredited voters in that polling unit, the presiding officer shall cancel the result of the election in that polling unit.
“Sub-section three of section 51 also states that where the result of an election is cancelled in accordance with subsection two, there shall be no return for the election until another poll has taken place in the affected polling unit.
“By virtue of these provisions and the powers vested in me as the collation and returning officer of the 2023 gubernatorial election in Kebbi State, I, Prof. Yusuf Sa’idu of the Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto, hereby declare the governorship election in Kebbi State inconclusive.”
Meanwhile,
The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced the candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Yusuf Abba Kabir, as the winner of Saturday’s governorship election in the state.
The declaration was made in the early hours of Monday amid growing tension in the state.
According to the results declared by the Returning Officer for the Kano State Governorship election, Professor Ahmed Ibrahim, the NNPP candidate polled 1,019,602 votes to defeat his closest rival, Nasiru Gawuna of the All Progressives Congress, who polled 890,705 votes.
Below are the results as announced by the Returning Officer:
Total number of registered voters – 5,921,370
Total number of accredited voters – 2,032,955
Total number of valid votes – 1,977,872
Total number of rejected votes – 27,092
Total votes cast – 2,004,964
In the meantime, owing to the growing tension in the state, a dawn-to-dusk curfew had been declared by the state government to forestall the breakdown of law and order.
Punch/Adebukola Aluko /Oluwayemisi Owonikoko
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