Kano LG Election: NNPP wins all 44 chairmanship seats, 484 councilorship positions

The New Nigeria People’s Party(NNPP) has won all the 44 local government areas of Kano State.

The State Independent Electoral Commission, KASIEC, announced the results on Saturday night at the Commission’s headquarters in Kano.

Chairman of the Commission, Professor Sani Lawan Malunfashi, who declared the results said that the ruling NNPP in Kano State won the 44 Local Government and 484 councilorship positions during the elections.

He disclosed that six political parties participated in the election.

He listed the political parties who participated in the exercise to includes; AA, AAC, ACCORD, ADC, APM, and NNPP.

The chairman said at the end of the whole exercise, NNPP scored the highest number of valid votes and won all the 44 Local Government Chairmanship and 484 councillorship positions contested for.

Prof. Malunfashi explained that the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) had exercised and observed its Constitutional mandates of planning, organizing, coordinating, observing and conducting Local Government Election in Kano State of Nigeria.

He maintained that the exercise was peacefully and successfully conducted in all ramifications.

The chairman acknowledged the contributions of all the critical stakeholders including security agencies, media organizations, leaders of political parties, civil society organizations, religious leaders, community leaders, youth and women organizations towards the hitch free exercise in the State.

“The Commission is also profoundly grateful to the good people of Kano State for their collective support, prayers and expression of positive emotions.

“The peaceful conduct of the exercise is a doubtless manifestation of public acceptability of the exercise in terms of credibility, fairness and decency”, he said