Kano State commissioner for Information, Youth and Culture, Malam Muhammad Garba has said that no amount of insinuations and cheap propaganda advanced by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to discredit Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje’s re-election would stand.
He said the PDP governorship candidate in the state should have accepted defeat in good faith and submit to the will of the people as the election of Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje “will not be tampered with God’s willing.”
In a press statement signed by the commissioner in reaction to an interview the PDP gubernatorial candidate, Engr Abba Kabir Yusuf granted to a national newspaper (not LEADERSHIP), challenging the result of the supplementary election that returned Ganduje as governor, he said that PDP candidate’s claim of victory in the election he lost, is a pointer that he is still in shock over his defeat.
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Malam Garba added that the PDP and its candidate are yet to advance any concrete argument to discredit the election rated as most peaceful, saying that ‘’their attempt to heat up the polity and create unnecessary tension through their unguarded utterances days before, during and after the election failed and are now blaming the APC for their failure.’’
He revealed that the results from the March 9 governorship election shows clearly how the PDP was involved in over voting and thumb printing by its agents which was later uncovered and which also forced the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct supplementary election in some polling units in 28 local government areas of the state.
He pointed out that the claim that the rerun election was marred by violence, maiming and killing of innocent people does not hold water as up till this moment, there is no documentary evidence to that effect but pictures posted by PDP’s paid agents on social media platforms taken from ethnic and religious crises that occurred in other states of the federation and beyond.
The commissioner assured that Ganduje’s second tenure will be better than his first term because he will consolidate on his past achievements, saying that his victory was a reflection of his performance in the last four years.
