Declare Abba Yusuf winner of Kano guber – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare its governorship candidate for Kano State,

Abba Yusuf, winner of the state governorship election,

This is just as the party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar had said that the PDP’s victories in Sokoto and Benue States were acknowledgement from the Nigerian people that it is the only truly national party in Nigeria.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said in a statement yesterday that Yusuf fulfilled the constitutional requirement of securing the highest number of votes and the statutory 25 per cent in two-third of Kano State.

“The so-called governorship supplementary election in Kano is a national disgrace and a mere figure allocating exercise by compromised INEC officials, who collaborated with power drunk politicians in the All Progressives Congress (APC) to award results to the APC candidate,” the party said.

It warned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against any attempt to import contrived figures from the March 23 supplementary poll as such, according to PDP, would be a recipe for anarchy and serious crisis in the state.

“The people of Kano State have a long history of firm resistance against corrupt and oppressive forces. Their will must therefore not be stretched in this election.

“The Kano people have abundantly expressed their rejection of the corrupt and incompetent government of Abdullahi Ganduje and his party, the APC, and no amount of machination can cow or force them to abandon their resolve for a new governor in Abba Yusu,” PDP said.

Atiku in a statement by his media adviser, Paul Ibe, said the re-election of Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, and his Benue State counterpart, Samuel Ortom, have shown that people of the states were convinced that much good would come out of them because of their enviable talents and leadership ability.

Atiku also congratulated Alhaji Bala Mohammed and Engr. Abba Kabir Yusuf, of Bauchi and Kano States respectively, for for their victories in the elections.

The PDP candidate noted that with unity within its midst, the party would “together continue to extend the boundaries of democracy and shrink the space occupied by tyranny.”