Kano Deputy Governor, Nasir Gawuna,
has been arrested at the state Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) centre, alongside the state’s Commissioner for Local Government
and
Chieftaincy affairs, Sule Garo, for allegedly trying to
disrupt collation of election results in the state.
According to Premium Times, the deputy governor and the commissioner
were said to have stormed the collation centre around 2am to disrupt the
collation process, and were duly arrested by the law enforcement officers
present at the venue.
Gawuna will be released since he’s on
constitutional immunity from prosecution based on his office.
Premium Times reports that while the PDP
candidate Abba Yusuf has so far scored 960,004 votes, Umar
Ganduje of the APC has 953,522 votes.
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