Kano APC rejects governorship election consequence

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected the governorship election outcomes introduced by the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) in Kano State.

The celebration claimed that the declaration didn’t conform with the Electoral Act 2022.

The state’s chairman of the APC, Abdullahi Abbas, at a press convention on Tuesday, mentioned the APC rejected the wrongful declaration that returned Abba Kabir of the New Nigeria Peoples Social gathering because the winner of the election by the INEC returning officer on Monday.

Mr Abbas mentioned the APC legal professionals have already written to INEC Nationwide Headquarters below Part 65 of the Electoral Act, 2022 for a assessment of the improper, hasty, and illegal choice of the returning officer and reverse and set identical apart, declaring the identical as inconclusive in addition to an order that reruns election be carried out instantly.

INEC mentioned the NNPP candidate polled 1,019,602 votes whereas the APC candidate, Mr Gawuna, polled 890,705 votes.

The returning officer, Ahmad Doko, a professor, declared Mr Kabir because the winner.

However the APC mentioned the method was marred by irregularities.

Learn the assertion of the celebration under:

The All Progressives Congress (A.P.C.), whose candidate, His Excellency, Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna, was one of many candidates on the simply concluded gubernatorial election held on 18th March 2023, for Kano State extends appreciation to the youth, girls, and non secular leaders, neighborhood leaders, and all our supporters for his or her overwhelming help throughout the simply concluded Gubernatorial Election held in Kano state, regardless of immense threats by members of the New Nigeria Individuals’s Social gathering (N.N.P.P.).

The Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) established to be an neutral physique acted in any other case on twentieth March when it unlawfully declared and returned Abba Kabir Yusuf of the New Nigeria Individuals’s Social gathering (NNPP) because the winner of the election in suspicious circumstances.

In the middle of collating the ultimate outcomes of the election, INEC discovered by way of its respective collation officers that there have been cancellations of elections in a number of polling items because of over-voting and violence throughout numerous Native Authorities Areas of Kano State and the variety of voters within the mentioned polling items who’ve collected their everlasting voter’s card (PVC) is 273,442 voters, which quantity is greater than twice the margin of lead between the 2 essential contenders within the election which is simply 128,897.

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The Returning Officer in connivance with the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) as an alternative of declaring the mentioned Governorship Election for Kano State as inconclusive, went forward to declare Abba Kabir Yusuf because the
winner. In so doing, the Returning Officer mysteriously went into seclusion for about two hours and after surfacing, mischievously got here up with the concept that all of the votes cancelled because of violence shouldn’t be counted whereas managing the margin of lead precept.

He relied on merchandise 2 of the Desk contained on web page 93 of the Handbook for Election Officers, 2023 regardless that the Returning Officer was immediately cautioned and guided to not misapply merchandise 2 within the circumstances, that it’s reasonably an merchandise 6 that ought to be utilized as a result of the election supplies have been deployed and the election commenced throughout the course of, there was violence that disrupted the method and Kinds EC40G collection have been respectively stuffed on the affected polling items. Surprisingly, the Returning Officer insisted and misapplied merchandise 2 regardless of all warning.

The motion of the Returning Officer has due to this fact disenfranchised the 273,442 individuals who’ve collected their PVCs and are able to solid their votes on the numerous

affected polling items. The declaration made by Returning Officer is opposite to the mixed provisions of Sections 24, and 51 of the Electoral Act, 2022, Article 62 of the INEC Rules and Pointers for the Conduct of Election, 2022, and objects 4.2.16, Word 32 on web page 84 and merchandise 6 of the Desk at web page 93 of the Handbook for Election Officers, 2023 which made it obligatory that each time the disenfranchised voters who’ve collected their everlasting voter’s card (PVC) outweigh the margin of lead between the candidates with the best variety of legitimate votes solid and his runner up, the fee will declare the mentioned election as inconclusive and order for a rerun election at an additional date.

That is the perfect electoral follow already established and adopted by the Fee in a number of states each on the Presidential and Nationwide Meeting elections held on twenty fifth February 2023 in addition to the simply concluded Governorship and State Home of Meeting elections held on 18th March 2023, according to the dictate of the regulation, impartiality and respect for due course of and the rule of regulation.

Particularly, 16 of the Homes of Meeting elections have been held on the identical date, identical venue, identical course of, and identical

circumstances with the Governorship election have been declared inconclusive by INEC.

It invariably follows that no matter violence, cancellation, and inclusion that befalls the Home of Meeting election additionally befalls the governorship election.

We’ve got additionally earlier written a Petition in respect of two wards of Rogo Native Authorities on clear election

malpractice and fabrication of votes. As of three pm on 18th March 2023, election supplies weren’t deployed and INEC introduced that the election has been postponed and voters returned to their numerous properties. Astonishingly, election supplies have been later deployed and filled with votes for the NNPP. The Returning Officer turned blind

eyes and ignored this petition, together with appearing on the fabricated votes.

We, due to this fact condemn in robust phrases and vehemently reject the wrongful declaration and return of Abba Kabir Yusuf because the winner of the election by the Returning Officer. Primarily based on the foregoing, our legal professionals have already written to INEC Nationwide Headquarters below Part 65 of the

Electoral Act, 2022 for assessment of the improper, hasty, and illegal choice of the Returning Officer and reverse and set identical apart, declare identical as inconclusive in addition to order that reruns election be carried out instantly.

This fashion electoral justice can be achieved and seen to have been achieved. Within the meantime, the celebration appeals to its teaming members and supporters to stay calm and peaceable within the face of the vandalization, arson, and wanton destruction of the properties of the APC and its supporters by the Chieftains of the NNPP and their members in broad daylight. Lengthy dwell All Progressives Congress (APC), Kano State, and Nigeria.