News Update
THE ruling party, New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP in Kano State has won all 44 Local Government chairmanship seats in the local government election that held on Saturday.
The party has also swept all the 484 councillorship seats.
The Chairman, Kano State Independent Electoral Commission, KANSIEC, Prof. Sani Lawal Malumfashi stated this while announcing the results at the commission’s headquarters.
Prof. Malumfashi said six political parties namely AA, AAC, Accord, ADC, APM and NNPP participated in the election.
The Chairman of the electoral body who said the election recorded large turnout of electorates, described the election as largely peaceful in all ramifications.
Prof. Malumfashi commended all those who played critical roles in the conduct of the exercise while thanking the parents and children for not allowing themselves to be used for disrupting the exercise.
According to him, “Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) has exercised and observed its constitutional mandates of planning, organizing, coordinating, observing and conducting Local Government Election in Kano State of Nigeria.
“The exercise had been largely peaceful and successful in all ramifications. The Commission therefore deeply appreciates the roles played by the critical stakeholders, notably security agencies, media organisations, leaders of political parties, civil society organisations, religious leaders, community leaders, youth and women organisations, towards the actualisation of grassroot democracy in the State.
“The peaceful conduct of the exercise is a doubtless manifestation of public acceptability of the exercise in terms of credibility, fairness and decency.
“NNPP won all 44 Local Government Chairmanship and 484 Councillorship Positions contested,” the KANSIEC Chairman, Prof. Malumfashi stated.
Meanwhile, it was gathered that the elected local government chairmen and the councillors will be issued certificate on Monday.
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