The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in Kano has vowed to challenge in court the declaration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate as winner of the Tsanyawa/Ghari State Assembly re-run election, alleging that the process was manipulated.
Kano State NNPP Chairman, Hashimu Suleiman Dungurawa, said the party would not accept what he described as a fraudulent outcome, stressing that voters were disenfranchised and results were tampered with to favour the APC.
“Therefore, the party rejected the election results of Tsanyawa/Ghari, which was declared at the INEC Headquarters in Kano, while cancelling entirely the 10 polling units that the Appeal Court nullified and ordered for a fresh election,” Dungurawa said.
He alleged that presiding officers had already signed the results at the collation centers in the affected polling units, accusing unnamed politicians of colluding with electoral officials to announce the APC candidate as winner at the INEC state headquarters instead.
Dungurawa added that unlike Tsanyawa/Ghari, the Shanono/Bagwai by-election was declared at collation centers, which, he said, prevented attempts to manipulate the outcome.
“NNPP as a party will continue to fight injustice, favoritism, election manipulation and against anybody who feels he can use the federal might to disenfranchise the good people of Kano State,” he vowed.
The NNPP, while commending voters and security agencies for ensuring peaceful polls, insisted that it would pursue legal redress to reclaim what it described as a stolen mandate.
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