..PDP kicks, accuses INEC of declaring fake results
By Bashir Bello
KATSINA – The incumbent Governor and the All Progressive Congress, APC candidate, Aminu Bello Masari has defeated his closest rival, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Yakubu Lado with a wide margin of 690,243 votes to emerge winner of the governorship election conducted in the state.

This was as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the state protested the election results, alleging that the electoral umpire, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC did not announced the real results from the Saturday election because the outcome of the election does not represent the will of people in the state.

However, Masari won in all the 34 local government areas of the state to defeat his major opponent, Lado.

The Returning Officer for the governorship election in Katsina state, Abdullahi Abdulmumini, while declaring the results said Masari scored 1, 178, 864 against Lado’s 488, 621 votes.

Abdulmumini, the Vice Chancellor, Uthman Danfodio University, Sokoto, UDUS, said Masari haven certified the law and scored the highest votes is hereby declared the winner and his returned elected.

The incumbent Governor defeated his closest opponent, Lado in his Kankara local government area with 43, 341 votes just as his deputy (PDP), Majigiri also lost his Mashi local government, with 34, 695 votes to Governor Masari.
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Earlier and before the final collation and announcement of the results, the People Democratic Party, PDP in the state protested the election outcome alleging that the results by the electoral umpire not real results and does not represent the will of people in the state.

The party Chairman and the deputy governorship candidate in the state, Salisu Majigiri who stated this while addressing newsmen at the INEC headquarters premises while collation of election results was ongoing threatened to take legal action to challenge the outcome of Saturday’s polls.

According him, “On behalf of the governorship candidate, Senator Yakubu Lado, myself as the deputy governor, the state house of assembly candidates and the PDP hereby rejected the result because the voters turn out during the elction on Saturday. There was low voter turnout Saturday in Katsina compare to the Presidential election. But from the figure we are receiving now, the INEC is trying to announce the figures that are not the real figures and not the will of the people.

“We have so far received 30 out of 34 local government areas. So we have compared with the result brought to us by our agents. There are so many discrepancies between the results been announced at the INEC headquarters and that with us. So we have rejected the results in totality and we are not going to accept the result that INEC is going to collate.
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“So we are rejecting the result, even before the announcement by INEC. We don’t have the authority to announce our own results, but we have the figures and we will make it public after INEC announcement.

“For instance in Zango local government area, our party agents were chased away by security agents because they cannot win such areas without force. In Kaita, the result was collated in INEC office. What happened in Charanchi local government would beat your imagination.

“We are going to take constitutional measures. There is a provision in the constitution, the electoral law which when you are not satisfied with the process, you have your ways to challenge the outcome,” Majigiri however stated.

KATSINA STATE GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION RESULT

1) DUTSI LGA
APC – 22, 482
PDP – 10, 564

2) MATAZU LGA
APC – 28, 253
PDP – 10, 327

3) SANDAMU LGA
APC – 32, 193
PDP – 11, 912

4) KUSADA LGA
APC – 20, 799
PDP – 8, 080

5) ZANGO LGA
APC – 23, 193
PDP – 11, 662

6) RIMI LGA
APC – 36, 276
PDP – 12, 496

7) INGAWA LGA
APC – 28, 905
PDP – 12, 602

8) BAURE
APC – 41, 076
PDP – 18, 012

9) MANI LGA
APC – 34, 254
PDP – 16, 476

10) KATSINA LGA
APC – 64, 709
PDP – 16, 734

11) JIBIA LGA –
APC – 30, 538
PDP – 12, 616

12) DANMUSA LGA
APC – 28, 008
PDP – 10, 306

13) BATAGARAWA LGA
APC – 39, 420
PDP – 12, 512

14) KANKIA LGA
APC – 29, 096
PDP – 14, 706

15) MAIADUA LGA
APC – 34, 154
PDP – 12, 904

16) BATSARI LGA
APC – 33, 742
PDP – 14, 142

17) KAITA LGA
APC – 27, 076
PDP – 11, 479

18) MASHI LGA
APC – 34, 695
PDP – 19, 255

19) DANDUME LGA
APC – 32, 560
PDP – 13, 533

20) BINDAWA LGA
APC – 34, 659
PDP – 13, 183

21) DUTSINMA LGA
APC – 32, 568
PDP – 16, 246

22) MUSAWA LGA
APC – 32, 276
PDP – 10, 151

23) KURFI LGA
APC – 24, 994
PDP – 12, 815

24) SAFANA LGA
APC – 26, 807
PDP – 10,657

25) – DAURA LGA
APC – 31, 361
PDP – 8, 298

26) FASKARI LGA
APC – 45, 777
PDP – 20, 329

27) SABUWA LGA
APC – 22, 359
PDP – 14, 384

28) DANJA LGA
APC – 36, 467
PDP – 17, 845

29) FUNTUA LGA
APC – 43, 883
PDP – 16, 597

30) MALUMFASHI LGA
APC – 56, 008
PDP – 21, 132

31) BAKORI LGA
APC – 44, 143
PDP – 20, 237

32) CHARANCHI LGA
APC – 24, 692
PDP – 9, 781

33) KANKARA LGA
APC – 43, 341
PDP – 23, 856

34) KAFUR LGA
APC – 58, 148
PDP – 22, 792

Total
APC – 1, 178, 864
PDP – 488, 621

Total Register Voters – 3, 230, 230
Total Accredited Voters – 1, 723, 780
Total vote cast – 1, 720, 638
Rejected – 37, 593