KANO State Government early Monday morning imposed a dawn to dusk curfew on the state following the declaration of Abba Kabir Yusuf, the governorship candidate of the New Nigeria People Party (NNPP), as the winner of Saturday’s polls.
The Kano State commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Malam Muhammad Garba, in a statement said the decision was to avoid breakdown of law and order following tensions generated from the collation of results of the governorship and state Assembly elections.
The NNPP candidate won with 1,019,602 votes to defeat the candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Nasiru Gawuna, who scored 890,705 votes. The NNPP candidate thus won with a margin of 128,897 votes.
The candidate of the People Democratic Party (PDP), Muhammad Abacha, got 15,957 votes while that of the Labour Party, Ishaq Bashir, scored 5,409 votes.
The returning officer, Ahmad Doko, who declared Yusuf winner, also announced that the candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Salihu Tanko, got 2,183 votes.
Kano has 5,921,370 registered voters, out of which 2,329,055 voters were accredited for the governorship election.
