APC demands redeployment of Kano Resident Electoral Commissioner

From Mustapha Adamu, Kano

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State on Wednesday demanded for the immediate redeployment of the Kano State Resident Electoral Commissioner Amb Abdu Zango from the state.
The Independent National Electoral Commission had on Monday declared Yusuf as the winner of the election.
Announcing the result in Kano, the state Returning Officer, Prof. Doko Ibrahim, the Vice-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, said Yusuf polled 1,019,602 votes to emerge victorious.
He said that the flagbearer defeated his closest rival and incumbent Deputy governorof the state, Malam Yusuf Gawuna of the APC, who scored 892,705 votes.
But reacting to this on Wednesday while presenting a petition calling for the immediate redeployment of Amb Abdu Zango from Kano State and investigate circumstances behind the declaration of Abba Kabir Yusuf of NNPP as the winner of March 18 governorship election in the state.
The state Chairman of the party, Alhaji Abdullahi Abbas, present a letter of petition to INEC office in Lano for delivery to it’s headquarters in Abuja
Abbas, who was represented by the party’s Legal Adviser, Mr Abdul Adamu Fagge, insisted that the election should be declared inconclusive.
“ The REC manifestly affirmed the allegations of partisanship, favouritism and rigging against him when on 20th March, 2023 he connived with the Returning Officer to declare Abba Kabir Yusuf of the NNPP as the winner of the Governorship election instead of declaring the election inconclusive”,he said
He explained that the number of voters in the said polling units where election results were cancelled who have collected their permanent voters card (PVC) is 273,442 voters, which number is more than twice the margin of win between the two main contenders in the election which is just 128,897.
The REC and the Returning Officer thereby disenfranchised the 273,442 voters and acted contrary to the combined provisions of Section 24, 51 of the Electoral Act, 2022, Article 62 of the INEC Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Election, 2022, and items 4.2.16, Note 32 at page 84 and item 6 of the table at page 93 of the Manual for Election Officials, 2022.
It is in view of the foregoing that we once again register our loss of confidence in the Kano REC and demand for his immediate redeployment in line with the dictates of the law, impartiality and respect for due process and the rule of law.