Kano residents defy curfew to celebrate NNPP candidate’s victory

To celebrate Yusuf Abba, the New Nigeria Peoples’ Party candidate who won the state’s governorship election on Saturday, Kano State residents disobeyed the curfew imposed by the state administration on Monday.

Despite the enforced curfew, videos show the residents celebrating the arrival of Abba in large numbers.

Following tensions brought on by a collation of the results of the Governorship and House of Assembly elections in the state, the authorities of Kano State imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew to prevent a breakdown in peace and order.

Kano State Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Mallam Muhammad Garba, said the decision was “to prevent hoodlums from causing chaos in the already tense situation.”

Nasiru Gawuna of the All Progressives Congress received 890,705 votes, which was fewer than the 1,019,602 votes the NNPP candidate received, according to the results announced by the state’s returning officer, Professor Ahmed Ibrahim.