Kano REC calls for patience as tension mounts over delay in poll results announcement

The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner for Kano State, Prof. Riskuwa Arabu, has called on residents and the electorate to exercise patience over the delay in announcing results of Saturday’s Governorship and State National Assembly polls.

The Kano REC who made the appeal after the collation process was disrupted at the Nasarawa Local Government Area Centre, in the early hours of Monday said the electoral body will follow the process and procedures in collating the results before they are announced later today.

According to him, “The results from 10 wards out of the 11 wards were collated in Nasarawa Local Government before the disruption.

“We have invited the representatives of all the political parties to witness the regeneration of the results as we enter it into the necessary forms since they also have copies of these results from the polling units up to the wards.

“I can assure you of our commitment to do what is right and we will be fair to all. We appeal to the political class to support us and cooperate with us.”

Recall earlier that the state deputy Governor, Nasiru Gawuna and the State Commissioner for Local Government, Alhaji Sule Garo were arrested over alleged threat to public peace following an altercation between the two of them at a collation centre in Kano.

Gawuna and Garo were both involved in a heavy exchange forcing security operatives to step in as they allegedly disrupted the collation of results of the Governorship Elections at the Nasarawa Local Government area Collation Centre.