Incumbent Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been declared winner of the 2019 Governorahip election of Kaduna State.
Governor el-Rufai scored 1,045,427 votes to beat his closest opponent Isa Ashiru Kudan of PDP who polled 814,168.
Announcing the result, the Kaduna State Governorship returning officer, Vice Chancellor of Bayero University Kano (BUK) Professor Mohammad Yahusa Bello said, ” Malam Nasir el-Rufai of the All Progresive Congress (APC) haven satisfied the requirements of the law and scored the highest votes cast is hereby declared winner and returned elected “.
Meanwhile, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna state has rejected the results alleging fraud and irregularities and manipulation of results.
From results collated at the INEC headquarters in Kaduna shows that, Governor El-Rufai has won in fourteen local government areas of Makarfi, Soba, Kudan, Ikara, Kauru, Kubau, Giwa, Igabi, Lere, Igabi, Kaduna North, Kaduna South, Zaria, Sabon Gari.
The opposition candidate, Hon. Isa Ashiru of the PDP won in Nine local government areas of Kachia, Kaura, Jaba Kajuru, Zangon Kataf, Jema’a, Kagarko, Sanga and Chikun local government areas.
Comrade Danjuma Sarki, the deputy director general Media of the Kaduna PDP campaign council described the election as a broad day robbery and rejected the results particularly bfrom Kaduna South, Igabi, Birnin gwari and some other local government areas where he said results where manipulated in favour the APC.
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has said that it would not accept results of the gubernatorial and state assembly elections in Kaduna state due to what it referred to as doctored results and result writing by government.
It would be recalled that the PDP Chairman of Kaduna state, Hon. Felix Hassan Hyet while the collation was still ongoing alleged that the elections in Kaduna state was marred by intimidation by security agencies, vote buying, ballot box snatching, ballot box stuffing and laying siege on Kagarko and Sanga local government area by security agencies to favour the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Addressing Journalists in Kaduna, Hyet said, “I want to commend the voters for conducting themselves in civil manner despite unnecessary interference by security agencies. There was public vote buying in Zaria local government by government officials, snatching of ballot boxes in Chikun local government area.
“The worst case was in Birnin Gwari where there was no voting, ballot boxes were snatched and returned the next day stuffed with results. Kagarko and Sanga local government areas are currently under siege by security agencies in an effort to change the results in favour of the ruling party.
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“Results were forcibly changed in Rigasa, Igabi local government area. The EO (Electoral Officers) are summoned to government house to present the results to the Governor for him to see and approve before authorising it. We have our results with our agents.
“Based on all these irregularities, we would not accept any doctored results that is announced by INEC because we have the original results from our agents on ground. INEC should be the umpire that everybody expect them to be. The will of the people have been pushed to the background by the activities of security agencies.
“Our people should remain calm, we would not accept any adulterated result from INEC. If anything comes out contrary to the mandate of the people we would not take it,” the PDP chairman added.
Commenting on the apathy witnessed by the elections, the former aviation minister said it was due to what happened during the presidential and National Assembly elections. “There was deployment of military and security personnel in a civil situation to intimidate and harass the people.”
The results by local governments are as follow:
MAKARFI LG.
APC 34,956
PDP 22,301
KAURA LG.
APC 8,342
PDP 38,764.
Jaba LG
APC 6,298
PDP 22,976
Kudan LG
APC 28,624
PDP 22,022
IKARA LG.
APC 41,969
PDP 22,553
KUBAU LG.
APC 67,182,
PDP 17,074
Kajuru LG.
APC 10,229
PDP 34,658
GIWA LG.
APC 51, 455
PDP 19,834
KAURU LG.
APC 34,844
PDP 31,928
KACHIA LG.
APC 30,812
PDP 51,780
SOBA LG.
APC 55,046
PDP 25,440
LERE LG
APC 71,056
PDP 45,215
JEMA’A LG
APC 21,265
PDP 63,129
KAGARKO LG
APC 21,982
PDP 26,643
KADUNA SOUTH LG
APC 102,035
PDP 37,948
IGABI LG
APC 102,612
PDP 31,429
ZARIA LG
APC 111,014
PDP 35,356
ZANGO KATAF LG
APC: 13,448
PDP: 87,546
SANGA LG
APC: 20,806
PDP: 21,226
KADUNA NORTH LG
APC: 97,243
PDP: 27,665
BIRNIN GWARI LG
APC: 32,292
PDP: 16,901
CHIKUN LG
APC: 24,262
PDP: 86,261
SABON GARI LG
APC: 57,655
PDP: 25,519
TOTAL
APC 1,045,427
PDP 814,168
Total number of registered voters 3,926,309, Total number of accredited voters 1,93,800, Total votes cast 1,921,229, Total valid votes 1,889,714 and Total number of rejected votes 31,515.
