Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano has explained why he could not deliver on his promise to ensure President Muhammadu Buhari gets five million votes in Kano state.
He also described those doubting the number of votes scored by Buhari in last Saturday’s election in the state as unserious.
Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) scored 1,464,768 votes in Kano to defeat the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who polled 391,593 in the state.
There was cancellation of results in some polling units in 17 local government areas. But the state witnessed no violence during the elections, although some people died in a clash between supporters of the APC and PDP a week before the polls.
Buhari was declared the overall winner of the election after he polled 15, 191,847, against the 11,262,978 votes polled by former vice president Atiku of the PDP who finished as runner-up.
Reacting to doubt by some Nigerians over the votes scored by Buhari in Kano, Ganduje, who was in the Presidential Villa Wednesday to congratulate Buhari on his re-election said, “first of all they are not serious people, they are people who are anti-democratic.
“If you have seen how the elections were conducted, I think everybody will agree that INEC tried very well. Even though there was low turnout of voters because we were expecting to get much more than that, the election was fair and free.
“Those saying we couldn’t have got that much are ignorant of the politics of Kano.”
Ganduje said the result of the presidential and the National Assembly elections has put the APC in good stead to win the March 9 gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections. Ganduje is seeking re-election at the polls.
Asked why he did not deliver on the five million votes he promised the president, the governor said, “Well, I told you it is because of the low turnout of voters. But I promise you next time…let’s look towards the governorship election.“
