Senator Uba Sani has been declared the winner of the 2023 Kaduna State gubernatorial election.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate was declared the winner on Monday by the Returning Officer for Kaduna State and Vice Chancellor of the Usman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto, Professor Lawal Suleiman Bilbis.
Senator Uba Sani garnered a total of 730,002 votes, defeating his closest rival, Isa Ashiru of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who polled 719,196 votes.
Jonathan Asake of the Labour Party (LP) came third with 58,283 votes, while Suleiman Hunkuyi of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) scored 21,405 votes.
The election was not without controversy, as the Kaduna State PDP Collation Agent, Danjuma Sarki, objected to the results before the winner was declared.
Sarki claimed that the number of votes recorded in its situation room was 713,157, while the APC had 709,561.
He argued that the collation did not follow the Electoral Act 2022 and asked INEC to refer to the results uploaded on the INEC Result Viewing Portal (IReV).
However, the returning officer disagreed, stating that the results announced were based on the collation done, which was not objected to by party agents.
The PDP agent refused to sign the final result sheets, describing the exercise as marred by irregularities.
