…… The Returning Officer for Kaduna State and Vice Chancellor of the Usman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto, Professor Lawal Suleiman Bilbis, declared Uba Sani the winner.
Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Uba Sani was on Monday declared the winner of Kaduna State 2023 governorship election.
According to Channels Live TV, Sani polled a total of 730,002 votes to beat his closest opponent, Isa Ashiru of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who polled 719,196 votes.
Jonathan Asake, the Labour Party (LP) candidate, was in third place, polling 58,283 votes while Suleiman Hunkuyi, the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) candidate, scored 21,405 votes.
Before the declaration of the winner, Danjuma Sarki, the Kaduna State PDP collation agent, objected to the results, arguing the number of votes brought from its situation room was 713,157 while the APC had 709,561.
Danjuma asserted that the collation did not follow the Electoral Act 2022 and requested INEC to refer to the results uploaded on the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV).
Nonetheless, the returning officer opposed, declaring the results announced were based on the collation done which was not objected to by party agents.
The PDP agent, hence, declined to sign the conclusive results sheets, characterizing the exercise as marred by irregularities.
