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| Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai |
Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has lost Saturday’s chairmanship and councillorship elections in his polling unit to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
The result announced by Muhammad Sani, Presiding Officer of the Unit, El-Rufai’s All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 62 votes in the chairmanship election, while People’s Democratic Party (PDP) had 86 votes out of the 159 votes cast while in the councillorship election, APC polled 53 votes, while PDP polled 100 votes out of 162 total votes cast.
The governor, who had earlier voted at his polling unit 001 Ungwan Sarki, Kaduna North local government area of the state, appeared unperturbed when he said his target was not to win all the polls but to improve the voting process using the electronic voting machine.
‘We are not going to behave like other parties or other state governments of the ruling party. We will allow the people of Kaduna State to elect who they want.
‘We do not have to win everywhere, though we have worked for the people of Kaduna State, they have seen our footprint everywhere. They have seen and we are confident that all reasonably minded people will vote for our party and our candidates because they know we are committed to the welfare of the people.
‘Technology is key to minimising cheating in election, unless we have a credible election we can never have good leaders, accountable leaders and that is why we are committed, even if it means we are going to lose in some areas, this is a democracy, it is a gradual process,’ Governor El-Rufai said.