Kano APC gives INEC 7 days to declare guber election inconclusive

Abba Kabir Yusuf of the NNPP was declared the winner of the recently concluded governor’s race, but the All Progressive Congress, or APC, in Kano has deemed the results to be invalid and unreliable and unable to withstand the test of time.

At a crowded press conference on Tuesday, Abdul Fagge, the legal advisor for the APC, stated that it was impossible for the election to be deemed successful with more than 270,000 votes being invalidated.

According to Section 65 of the Electoral Law 2022, he declared: “We have written to INEC to revisit and cancel the hasty, incorrect, and self-serving declaration of the NNPP as the election’s winner, and declared the conduct inconclusive.”
He claimed that since then, they have written to INEC requesting that they review the elections in accordance with electoral law provisions and declare them inconclusive within seven days.

According to Fagge, the INEC Returning Officer acted egotistically and in violation of the law.

He pointed out that since elections in Kano clearly descended into violence, if INEC could declare elections in Kebbi and Adamawa states inconclusive due to violence and excessive voting, it should do the same for those in Kano.

Alhassan Ado Doguwa, the majority leader of the House of Representatives, compared the National Assembly election with the governorship election, of which the former has been deemed inconclusive, in his remarks during the briefing.

Doguwa noted that 12 of the 13 polling places were closed due to violence and excessive voting, and he has since accepted his faith while awaiting the election’s reruns.