Mohammed Shosanya
The New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP in Kano State on Saturday won all the 44 Local Government chairmanship seats and 484 councillorship seats in Council election.
The Chairman, Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC), Prof. Sani Lawal Malumfashi,who stated this while announcing the results the commission’s headquarters,said six political parties participated, namely AA, AAC, Accord, ADC, APM and NNPP in the election out of which NNPP won all the chairmanship and Councillorships.
He said the election recorded large turnout of electorates, however described the election as largely peaceful in all ramification.
Prof. Malumfashi commended all those who played critical role in the conduct of the exercise while thanking the parents and children for not allowing their children and themselves respectively to be used for disrupting the exercise.
He added: “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.
“The exercise had been largely peaceful and successful in all ramifications. The Commission therefore deeply appreciates the roles played by the critical stakeholders, notably security agencies,media organizations,leaders of political parties, civil society organizations,religious leaders, ommunity leaders,youth and women organizations, towards the actualization of grass root democracy in the state.
“The peaceful conduct of the exercise is a doubtless manifestation of public acceptability of the exercise in terms of credibility, fairness and decency.
“NNPP won all 44 Local Government Chairmanship and 484 Councillorship Positions contested,” the KANSIEC Chairman, Prof. Malumfashi however stated.
