Yakowa’s PDP wins Kaduna State

After several hours of sitting on the chair’s edge by many, the INEC’s  Returning Officer in Kaduna state, Prof. Abdullahi Mustafa who is the Vice Chancellor of  Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria has declared Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa of the PDP as winner of the just concluded governorship election in Kaduna State which took place in the 23 local government in the state.

Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa

To pull this feat, Yakowa secured 1,334,319 votes in the 5,102 polling centres where the election took place. With this, he defeated CPC’s Haruna Sa’eed who secured 1,133,564 votes, ACN’s Sani Sha’aban who polled 20,094 votes, Muktar Aruwa of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) who had 33,142 votes and Balarabe Musa, PRP who had 21,200 voters acknowledgement. The opposition has however alleged that there were substantial cases of irregularity by the PDP.  A total of 3,689,340 voters were registered in the state; 2,516,144 were enfranchised with 34,350 votes recorded as invalid during the election.

The governor elect on his website has meanwhile appreciated the support given by Kaduna voters. ‘I on behalf of my Family and the PDP Family use this medium to express my profound gratitude to Kaduna Voters.’ Unconfirmed news as at ‘blogging time’ also has it that the Mallam Isa Yuguda of the PDP also defeated his closest rival, Yusuf Maitama Tuggar of the CPC with about 500,000 votes.