The Chairman of the Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission, Dr. Saratu Dikko, on Friday, admitted that elections did not hold on Wednesday in the Chikun and Kaura local government areas of the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the commission had rescheduled the election after it failed to conduct the exercise on May 12.
Dikko, at a press conference in Kaduna, said two different results were declared by separate officials in the election conducted in the Jaba Local Government Area.
She said, “A free, fair and credible election was conducted in Jaba during the rescheduled polls, but two results were announced from the same election.”
According to her, only the tribunal could resolve the issue. She therefore advised the two political parties that participated in the exercise to approach the Local Government Election Tribunal on the matter.
On the failed election in Chikun and Kaura, the SIEC chairman stated that the commission would come out with a position later.
“Chikun LGA held no elections on June 6 during the rescheduled polls because our office was invaded and staff molested; elections did not hold,” she said.
Dikko added that the result declared by one Dr. Sani Mohammed, who claimed to be the returning officer for the LGA, was fake.
On the situation in Kaura, she noted that some stakeholders had refused to allow the distribution of election materials, adding that they insisted that the returning officers must be around for easy identification at the end of the exercise.
The electoral boss, however, noted that the rescheduled poll held in some wards of the Kaduna South LGA, where it was earlier declared inconclusive.
She stated that after the final tally of the votes, the chairmanship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Kabiru Yakubu-Jarumi, won with 50,404 votes, while the Peoples Democratic Party candidate scored 23,425 votes.
According to her, the election was also concluded in Makarfi Central Ward in the Makarfi LGA, where Suleiman Adamu of the APC won with 1,770 votes against PDP’s Aliyu Lawal, who scored 1,615 votes
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