The All Progressives Congress (APC) lost in the polling unit
of Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna, during the state’s LGA elections on
Saturday.
El-Rufai voted at Ungwan Sarkin polling unit 001 in Kaduna
north LGA area of the state.
Announcing the results for the polling unit, Mohammed Sani,
the presiding officer, said in the chairmanship election, the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) scored 86 votes while the APC secured 62 votes.
Sani said in the councillorship election, the PDP scored 100
votes while the APC had 53 votes.
Earlier, el-Rufai had expressed disappointment over the low
turnout of voters during the election exercise.
The governor attributed the low turnout to the late arrival
of some of the election materials.
“What worries me is that I noticed that people didn’t turn
out much,” he had said.
“I know that in many
polling units, there were challenges with the Electronic Voting Machines.
“Some machines were taken to the wrong polling units, so they
had to be changed. So people who came out early to vote, thought that the
voting had not started.”
He, however, said there has been a significant improvement
in the electronic voting machines (EVMs) compared to the ones used in the 2018
LG polls.
The governor had also said his administration is committed
to free and fair elections in the state and that he would allow the people of
Kaduna to elect who they want.
“As I said several
times, we are not going to behave like other parties or other state governments
where the ruling parties win everything,” he had said.
“We will allow the people of Kaduna state to elect who they
want, we do not have to win everywhere.
“We don’t believe in cheating, we don’t believe in rigging
elections, but we also do not believe that others should cheat us.”
Some electoral officers were assaulted by suspected hoodlums
while EVMs were vandalised.
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