{"id":33684,"date":"2023-03-20T10:09:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T10:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/?p=33684"},"modified":"2023-03-20T10:09:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T10:09:33","slug":"nnpps-abba-kabiru-yusuf-defeats-closest-rival-gawuna-in-kano-gubernatorial-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/2023\/03\/20\/nnpps-abba-kabiru-yusuf-defeats-closest-rival-gawuna-in-kano-gubernatorial-election\/","title":{"rendered":"NNPP&#8217;s Abba Kabiru Yusuf Defeats Closest Rival Gawuna In Kano Gubernatorial Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) governorship candidate in Kano State, Abba Kabiru Yusuf has been declared the winner of the State governorship election.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The State Collation Officer, Prof. Ahmad Doko Ibrahim made the declaration this morning, saying Yusuf won 30 local government areas out of 44 LGAs, polling 1,019,602 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yusuf\u2019s closest rival of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nasir Yusuf Gawuna polled 890,705 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes after the presidential candidate of NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso, had expressed concerns about alleged attempts to declare the governorship election in Kanos state inconclusive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to journalists in the early hours of Monday morning, the former Governor called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to \u201cdo the right thing\u201d as his party is in the lead at the INEC collation centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He, therefore, called for fairness as he would not want any form of chaos, following an announcement of results in the State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) governorship candidate in Kano State, Abba Kabiru Yusuf has been declared the winner of the State governorship election. The State Collation Officer, Prof. Ahmad Doko Ibrahim made the declaration this morning, saying Yusuf won 30 local government areas out of 44 LGAs, polling 1,019,602 votes. Yusuf\u2019s closest rival of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8767,1862,4125,5097],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33686,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33684\/revisions\/33686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}