The incumbent President, Muhammadu Buhari and presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has defeated his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in Kano State with 1.073,175 votes margin.
Announcing the results on Monday night, the Collation Officer for the Presidential election in Kano, Professor Magaji Garba, declared that Buhari polled 1,464,768 to defeat Atiku who scored 391,593 votes.
Prof Garba, who is the vice-chancellor of the Federal University, Gusau, Zamfara State, said the total registered voters in the state stood at 5,391,581, while the total accredited voters were 2,006,410.
He said that the total votes cast during the election were 1,964,751, the total valid votes 1.891,134 and the rejected votes were 73,617.
Reacting to the outcome of the election, the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano, Dr Rabi’u Sulaiman Bichi has rejected the results of the election collated in Kano by the INEC.
BIchi alleged that figures were inflated in the results, insisting that “we cannot accept this results because it was inflated, that is our stand. We will go back and analyse the issue to know the next line of action to take.
“As you can see, the presiding officers complained of lack of use of card readers during the voting exercise of the presidential and national assembly elections in the state coupled with over-voting. So, we will look into all these and other circumstances, provisions of the law and see what the law says so as to pursue our rights.”
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