The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,  on Monday morning declared Abba Kabir Yusuf of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP as governor-elect of Kano State.

Ahmad Dokko Ibrahim, the returning officer, announced the result.

Recall that Yusuf contested the 2019 poll on the platform of the PDP against incumbent Governor Abdullahi Ganduje leading Ganduje with 26,655 votes. Yusuf, polled 1,014,474 votes while Ganduje got 987,819 votes.

INEC then announced supplementary elections in 28 out of the 44 local government areas in the state.

Ganduje eventually won by scoring 45,876 votes while Yusuf polled just 10,239 in the supplementary polls, thereby undoing his victory in the state.

The final results at the time were 1,033,695 votes for Ganduje and 1,024,713 for Yusuf. Both men were separated by less than 9,000 votes won the election with 1,019,602 votes, while Gawuna got 890,705 votes. In 2022, he defected to the NNPP with Dr Rabiu Kwankwaso, presidential candidate of the party in the just concluded February 25, 2023 presidential and national assembly election.