The Peoples Democratic Party's presidential candidate has been declared the victor of the general election held on Saturday in Katsina State, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission.
The results of the exercise were released early on Monday morning by the state returning officer, Professor Muazu Abubakar Gusau. At 3.20 a.m., he made the announcement of the results. He stated that there were 1097663 accredited voters overall, compared to 3516719 registered voters.
A—255
AA—523
AAC—234
ADC—–1405
ADP—1798
APC—-482,283
APGA—–1391
APM—–603
APP—269
BP—-307
LP—-6376
NNPP—-69386
NRM—1053
PDP—-489045
PRP—-1986
SDP—339
YPP—1029
ZLP—371
Total Valid Votes —-1058673
Rejected votes—-32514
Total votes cast—-1091187.
The returning officer also revealed that votes were canceled due to overvoting, violence, thuggery, and insecurity in some areas of the state.
The affected areas, according to him included Baure (One polling unit); Danmusa( Two polling units); Daura ( One polling unit); Dutsinma ( One polling unit); Funtua (Three polling units); Kafur ( Twelve polling units); Kankara ( One polling unit); Katsina( Seven polling units); Kurfi (One polling unit) and Kusada ( One polling unit).
Others were Maiadua ( One polling unit); Malumfashi ( Ten polling units); Mashi ( Ten polling units); Sabuwa ( One polling unit) and Safana ( Ten polling units).
Gusau gave the total number of registered voters whose elections were cancelled because of the reasons he earlier stated as 51310.