With over 1m votes, INEC declares Aminu Masari winner in Katsina

Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State has been declared the winner of the governorship election staged in the state on Saturday by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

According to results released by INEC, the governor polled 1,178,864 votes to defeat his closest rival Yakubu Lado of the PDP who scored 488,621 votes.

Read also: APC’s Mukhtar Idris wins Zamfara governorship election

While announcing the poll results, the Returning Officer, Prof Abdullahi Abdu Zuru, Vice Chancellor, Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto, said that “the APC candidate, Aminu Masari, having satisfied the requirements of the law and scored highest number of votes is hereby declared winner and returned elected.”

Masari is the incumbent governor of his state and this is his re-election for a second term in office.

Join the conversation

Opinions

Support Ripples Nigeria, hold up solutions journalism

Balanced, fearless journalism driven by data comes at huge financial costs.

As a media platform, we hold leadership accountable and will not trade the right to press freedom and free speech for a piece of cake.

If you like what we do, and are ready to uphold solutions journalism, kindly donate to the Ripples Nigeria cause.

Your support would help to ensure that citizens and institutions continue to have free access to credible and reliable information for societal development.

Donate Now