The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed presidential election results from Kano State’s thirteen (13) LGAs.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is leading the poll ahead of his counterparts from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).
WITHIN NIGERIA observed that the APC and NNPP received hundreds of thousands of votes from Kano North Senatorial District LGAs, while the Labour Party and PDP received only a few thousand votes.
The following are the official INEC results for the Kano North Senatorial District:
LGA: 13 Local Government Areas
Returning Officer – Professor Tijjani Magaji Bamanga
RAs – 10
Total Registered votes – 1, 187, 492
Total Accredited votes – 447, 148
APC – 234, 652
PDP – 12, 751
NNPP – 177, 014
LP – 1, 258
INEC Rejects Result From Okowa’s LGA, Cites Over-Voting
Meanwhile, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has rejected the presidential election results from the Ika North-East Local Government Area (LGA) of Delta State.
WITHIN NIGERIA reports that the vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and governor of the state, Ifeanyi Okowa, hails from the LGA.
INEC claimed there was over-voting in the LGA, hence the need to struct the results.