Kwankwaso’s victory in Kano is the first for him in the 2023 general elections.
By Jeffrey Agbo
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, as the winner of the February 25 election in Kano State.
Kwankwaso, a former governor of the state and ex-senator, polled a total number of 997,279 votes, the electoral body said on Tuesday evening.
Candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, got 517,341 votes.
READ ALSO:
Tinubu defeats Atiku, Obi, Kwankwaso, in Niger
The Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar, scored 131,716 votes while the candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, got 28,513 votes.
A total of 5,921,370 voters were registered in the state, according to the INEC collation officers, and 1,769,525 of them were accredited while the total number of valid votes was 1,702,005 the number of rejected votes was 44,405.
Kwankwaso’s victory in Kano is the first for him in the 2023 general elections.