Gov. Masari of APC re-elected for second term in Katsina

The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Governor Aminu Masari as winner of Saturday’s governorship election in Katsina State.

The Returning Officer for the governorship election, Prof. Abdullahi Abdu Zuru, Vice Chancellor, Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto, said Masari polled 1,178,864 votes to defeat Peoples Democratic Party’s Senator Yakubu Lado, who scored 488,621 votes in the election.

Zuru said the state had a total of 3.2 million registered voters.

According to him, the total accredited voters were 1,173,780, while the votes cast were 1,720,638 and 37,593 votes were rejected.

The Returning Officer said that “the APC candidate, Aminu Masari, having satisfied the requirements of the law and scored highest number of votes is hereby declared winner and returned elected.”

Masari defeated Lado and 16 other candidates in all the 34 Local Government Areas of the state.

The PDP had already rejected the results announced by the INEC.

The PDP state Chairman, Alhaji Salisu Majigiri, alleged that the results declared by the INEC did not tally with the low turnout of voters and the results in custody of their agents.

Majigir said the party would challenge the results through legal means.