APC’s Dikko Radda wins Saturday’s Katsina Governorship election
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Sunday night declared the Katsina state candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in last Saturday’s Governorship election, Dr
Umar Dikko Radda, winner of the election in the state.
The INEC Retuning officer for the Governorship election in the State, Professor Muazu Abubakar Gusau made the announcement shortly after all the Commission’s collation officers in all the 34 Local Government Areas of the state had declared the results of the election in their respective councils.
According to Gusau, Radda polled 859892 to emerge the winner of the election.
The Peoples Democratic Party candidate,Senator Yakubu Lado Danmarke polled 486260 while Nura Khalid of the New Nigeria Peoples Party ( NNPP) polled 8263.
The Returning officer declared :” I , Professor Muazu Abubakar Gusau,the Returning officer for the Governorship election held in Katsina state on Saturday,18 March,2023 hereby declare Umar Dikko Radda of APC ,having satisfied the requirements of the law ,winner of the election and is hereby returned elected as the Governor.”
Other Governorship candidates and their scores as announced by the Returning officer included Barau Tanimu of Accord party—297; Dankali Garba of AA party—276;Amin Ibrahim of ADC —925; Ahmed Murtala of ADP—2309 and Khado Kabir of BP—403.
Others included Abu Ibrahim of LP—560 ; Abdullahi I of NRM —896; Gafari Imran of PRP—4226; Zakare Babangida of SDP–1049 and Tukir Saude of ZLP—132.
The Returning officer also revealed that there were 3516719 registered voters for the election,putting the total number of accredited voters at 13992719.
He also put total valid votes at 1365848;rejected votes at 20589 and total votes cast at 1386427.
Gusau added that polls were cancelled in 88 polling units for reasons which included over voting and violence.
