The governorship election in Kebbi state has been declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
WITHIN NIGERIA reports that the collation and returning officer for the governorship election, Professor Yusuf Sa’idu, made this known in the early hours of Monday.
Sai’du stated that the election was declared inconclusive due to irregularities in the state’s 18 local government areas.
He stated that the total number of registered voters for the elections was 2,032041, with the All Progressives Congress (APC) receiving 388,258 votes and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) receiving 342,980 votes, a 45,278-vote difference.
According to Sai’du, the total number of valid votes cast in the election was 792234, with 18,204 rejected votes and 760,438 total votes cast.
He said;
While the collation was on, we took records of where cancellations were made in 20 out of the 21 local government areas of the state, totaling 91,829”.
By the power invested on me as the collation and presiding officer for the general and gubernatorial election, I, professor Yusuf Sa’idu of Usman Danfodio University Sokoto hereby declare the governorship election in Kebbi State inconclusive.
Earlier, the PDP representative at the collation center, Alhaji Sani Dododo, refused to sign the results, insisting that INEC must announce the total figure of overvoting and cancelations made in the 20 affected local government areas.