The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Governorship candidate, Yusuf Kabir has been declared the governor-elect.
Kabir was declared the winner of the keenly contested March 18 poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday morning.
Kabir scored 1,019,602 votes to defeat his closest contender, Nasir Gawuna of the APC who polled 890,705 votes.
“That Yusuf Kabir of NNPP having satisfied the requirement of the law is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” the Returning Officer, Prof Ahmad Ibrahim declared.
The battle for the political control of Kano State in Nigeria’s North-West geopolitical zone between the All Progressives Congress (APC), outgoing governor Abdullahi Ganduje and the NNPP presidential candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso has been a major topic.
Ganduje was Kwankwaso’s deputy when the latter was governor from 2011 May to May 2015 before they fell apart after the 2015 elections which saw the emergence of Ganduje as governor. Before then, Kwankwaso was also Kano governor from 1999 to 2003.
