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March 12, 2019
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC hasdeclared the governorship election in Kano State as inconclusive.
The Returning Officer for the Governorship election in thestate Bibi Shehu announced this shortly after the compilation of the electionresults from the 44 Local Government Areas in the state in Kano
According to him, the declaration of the election as inconclusiveis in accordance with section 26 of the INEC Act. He said the number ofcanceled votes cast is beyond the margin between the candidate with the highestvotes and the one that came second.
Shehu explained that the difference between the candidateof  the People’s Democratic Party, PDPAbba Kabir-Yusuf, who leads in the votes declared, and that APC candidate,Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, who cane second, was 26,000 votes, while the votescancelled were 128,572.
He said that INEC would fix a date to conduct election in172 polling units, where the election was cancelled due to disturbances, overvoting and non-usage of the card reader machine.