Ibrahim Shekarau, a former governor, has been declared the
winner of Kano central senatorial seat.
NAN reports that Tijani Darma, the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) returning officer, who announced the results of the
election, said Shekarau polled 456,787 votes to defeat Alhaji Abdulkarim Zaura
of All Progressives Congress (APC) who polled 168,677 votes and Hajiya Laila
Buhari of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) who secured 55,237 votes.
In September 2022, Shekarau, a senator representing Kano
central, was listed as the candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) —
a party he had dumped in August 2022 for the PDP.
The former minister had left the All Progressives Congress
(APC) for the NNPP after months of leadership tussle with Abdullahi Ganduje,
governor of Kano.
Shortly after the announcement of the results, Shehu Usman,
NNPP’S agent, accused INEC of failing to replace Shekarau who defected from the
party to the PDP.
He added that despite a court order directing INEC to accept
the name of a fresh candidate, Rufai Hanga, the commission refused to comply.
Yusuf Atta APC’s agent asked INEC to declare Abdulkarim
Zaura, the party’s candidate, who came second as the winner because Shekarau
did not participate in the election.
However, Darma told the party agents to report their
complaints to INEC and the election tribunal that would be set up.
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