Rabiu Kwankwaso, a former
governor of Kano state, says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will win
Saturday supplementary election in the state.
Kwankwaso spoke through Binta
Spikin, his media aide.
“Sen Rabiu Kwankwaso hereby calls
on the people of Kano, cutting across political divides, to conduct themselves
peacefully during the oncoming re-run election while voting for the candidate
of their choice,” Spikin said on behalf of the former governor.
“Kwankwaso believes in Kano and
is concerned about the fate of its teeming youths, which informed his
people-oriented projects and programmes when he was the governor of Kano.
“He called on the public to
ignore all negative media articles attributed to him, especially those premised
on throwing the state into chaos.
“The senator believes that in a
free and fair election, PDP will win, as it had previously. Hence, a re-run
will not in any way hamper the fortunes of Abba Kabir Yusuf (the PDP
governorship candidate).”
INEC had declared the
governorship election inconclusive. Bello Shehu, the returning officer, based
the action on the margin between the two leading candidates and the cancelled
votes in the election.
Abba Yusuf, candidate of the PDP
had polled a total of 1,014,353 votes ahead of Abdullahi Ganduje, candidate of
the All Progressives Congress (APC) who secured 953,522 votes, leaving a margin
of 26,655 votes, ad a total of 100,873 votes were cancelled in the election.
The re-run elections will hold in
234 polling units in more than 88 registration wards of 30 local government
areas in the state.
Earlier, Kwankwaso had said the
rerun would determine INEC’s credibility.
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