No cause for alarm, I will emerge victorious - Governor Ganduje tells supporters

- Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has expressed the confidence that APC will emerge victorious in the governorship and state Assembly elections in Kano state

- Ganduje urges his supporters to remain calm while collation of results from the elections continues across the state continues

- The governor notes that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is the only constituted authority to announce results of elections and declare winners

Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of has told his supporters that there is no cause for alarm as voting reports project that the APC will emerge victorious in the governorship and state House of Assembly elections in Kano state.

Daily Trust reports that Ganduje in a statement signed by the state commissioner of information, Malam Muhammad Garba, on Sunday, March 10, urged his supporters to remain calm while collation of results from the elections continues.

He however noted that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was the only constituted authority to announce results of elections and declare winners.

The governor advised people to wait for the announcement of the final official result by the INEC before embarking on celebrations.

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He implored the people to always be law abiding and desist from taking law into their hands and desist from any act capable of breaching peace in the state.

Meanwhile, the current governor of Akwa Ibom and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the governorship election, Udom Emmanuel, has been declared winner in 13 out of the 31 local government areas announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) so far.

It was learnt that Emmanuel has so far polled 205,931 votes in the 13 local government areas. Premium Times reports that this figure represents 73.9% of the total votes cast in those areas.

He is thus said to be leading the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nsima Ekere, who has polled 72,742 in the 13 local government areas, representing 26.1% of the total votes announced so far.

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