Breaking – Guber rerun: Thugs invade collation centre, tear result sheet in Kano, INEC suspends final declaration

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended final collation of supplementary governorship election in Kano State after thugs reportedly invaded Nasarawa local government area collation point and tore result sheet.

Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Riskuwa Shehu, who disclosed this early on Sunday said: “As we were waiting to reconvene with the intention to continue with the collation, we heard a disturbing report that just as they were about to conclude, results collation in Nasarawa local government were disrupted and the result sheet torn away and there was a lot of commotion and the police had to rescue some people.

“As it is now, we don’t have the result and even the E. O. (Electoral Officer) had to be rescued. Luckily, nothing happened to him. He was saved from the crisis.

“But the intention of the commission is that we are going to refer to our primary and secondary data of results that were collated from the polling units as well as the ward level.

“When we get the results in the presence of all the representatives of political parties, we will regenerate the results and we will confirm those that are acceptable within our laws and guidelines and those that have to be cancelled because the card readers will have to be referred to as well.

“Based on that, we will have genuine results and we will complete the collation for the state governorship election,” he said.

Results from 21 local councils have been collated already and the incumbent Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of the All Progressives Congress led his challenger, Abba Kabir-Yusuf, of the Peoples Democratic Party.


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