The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Nasiru Idris is the winner of the Kebbi State governorship poll.
Idris, a former Deputy Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the National President of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), secured 409,225 votes to beat his closest rival, retired Maj.-Gen Aminu Bande of PDP who scored 360,940 votes.
Persecondnews recalls that INEC had declared the March 18 governorship election in the state inconclusive and organized a rerun for April 15 in 142 polling units spread across 20 of the 21 local government areas.
Announcing the results in Birnin Kebbi, the state capital on Sunday, the Returning Officer, Prof. Yusuf Sa’idu of Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto, disclosed that the total votes cast was 800,560.
Out of which valid votes were 781,478, while 19,082 votes were rejected, he said.
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