2023 Elections

#ElectionResults: Ex-Governor Shekarau wins Kano senatorial seat for NNPP

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2 years ago

The former governor, Senator Ibrahim Shekarau, has been declared the winner of the 2023 Kano Central Senatorial District election under the New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP).

Malam Shekarau, a former Kano state governor and a sitting Senator, was in NNPP and was nominated to vie for the senatorial position under its platform before he defected to the PDP, as a result, if his loggerhead with the presidential candidate of NNPP, Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso

It will be recalled that before the election, he announced his defection from the NNPP and abandoned his Senatorial ambition to join PDP.

However, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) later insisted that it still recognizes him as the legitimate NNPP candidate, even though the party replaced him with another candidate, Rufa’i Sani Hanga.

Shekarau, who is going to the red chamber for the second time, was declared by the returning officer of the Senatorial district, Professor Tijjani Hassan Darma.

The result of the election by INEC indicated that Shekarau polled 456,787 votes to defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Alhaji Abdulkarim Abdussalam Zaura, who polled 168, 677 votes.