By Temidayo Akinsuyi

A former Minister of Transport, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, has cautioned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against manipulating the rerun elections in states where last Saturday’s governorship elections were declared inconclusive.

Babatope particularly warned the electoral body against manipulating the election in Kano state which he described as a ‘political tinderbox’.

INEC had Monday night declared the governorship election held in Kano State inconclusive.

The election was declared inconclusive by the State Returning Officer, Prof B. B. Shehu, the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Birnin Kebbi.

Abba Kabir Yusuf, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate had more votes than the incumbent state governor Dr Abdullahi Ganduje with a slim margin of 26,655 votes. Yusuf polled 1,014,474 votes, while Ganduje got 987,810.

With 2,211,520 accredited voters, 172 polling units were cancelled making a total of 100,873 votes cancelled and 49,761 rejected votes.

Speaking in a chat with INDEPENDENT, Babatope said rigging election in Kano may be dangerous for Nigeria’s peace and stability, adding that any negative occurrence here will also affect Africa and the rest of the world.

He said: “I pray that INEC does not rig the rerun elections, especially in Kano state. If they do, they will be endangering the peace, unity and cohesion of Nigeria.

“There are many issues intertwined in the Kano election that requires caution. From all said and done, Nigeria is still our country and definitely, a United Nigeria is good for Nigerians, Africa and the world.

“Kano is a political tinderbox and if they tamper with it, then they would have murdered peace in Nigeria and that will be very dangerous,” he said.
https://www.independent.ng/rigging-kano-election-may-set-nigeria-on-fire-babatope-tells-inec/

Plus Rivers too. Buhari's silence shows he supports the nonsense going on. Sad for a man with 'integrity'.

100 people per polling unit in kano state

What is going on at the moment with Southern PDP supporters is very funny.

During presidential elections, majority of the electorates in Kano State and other Northern states voted for Buhari. They accused those Northerners of being politically primitive and underage voting.

Then came governorship election and PDP is top in Kano, Sokoto, Bauchi, etc with already collated results, they are now praising Northerners of being politically sophisticated. Nobody is talking about underage voting again.

Mark my word. If the results of supplementary elections favour APC, the song will change once again. By the way the results so far are too close to call, which means none of the candidates enjoy absolute support. This means it could go either way and it doesn't have to be in favour of PDP for the elections to be considered free, fair and credible.

Kano ist not River State INEC and Apc will not like what the northern youths will do to dem If they rig it. They've thousands of volunteers ready to die.

a coup d'etat will reset the brain of all these desperados

Riging the supplementary election in kano alone will degenerate to a worse violence than what we withnessed in the entire south put together.
An average Hausa man can die for what he believes in, even their women. I was just joking with a lady about the outcome of the election and why I won't have voted for buhari if I was around... She's still very angry with me till now.

festacman:
What is going on at the moment with Southern PDP supporters is very funny.

During presidential elections, majority of the electorates in Kano State and other Northern states voted for Buhari. They accused those Northerners of being politically primitive and underage voting.

Then came governorship election and PDP is top in Kano, Sokoto, Bauchi, etc with already collated results, they are now praising Northerners of being politically sophisticated. Nobody is talking about underage voting again.

Mark my word. If the results of supplementary elections favour APC, the song will change once again.

My brother, we are dealing Highly Stewpid People (HSPs), they are just sick in the head and think the North they love to insults suffer same type of sickness

festacman:
What is going on at the moment with Southern PDP supporters is very funny.

During presidential elections, majority of the electorates in Kano State and other Northern states voted for Buhari. They accused those Northerners of being politically primitive and underage voting.

Then came governorship election and PDP is top in Kano, Sokoto, Bauchi, etc with already collated results, they are now praising Northerners of being politically sophisticated. Nobody is talking about underage voting again.

Mark my word. If the results of supplementary elections favour APC, the song will change once again.

Only ignorant people are praising northerners.
There is nothing sophisticated when 50% of the population wants a known thief Gandollar back in
the government.
There is a reason why all the places PDP is "leading" have inconclusive results.
If the populace had voted without sentiment, the results wouldn't be close.

Inconclusive everywhere PDP won!

They want to repeat what they did in Osun

backnbeta:
Inconclusive everywhere PDP won!

Who go win go win and nothing will happen. 1 battalion of soldiers and one week curfew is enough to put sense into the heads of any trouble makers. Nobody can disturb the peace of Nigeria on account of an election loss

festacman:
What is going on at the moment with Southern PDP supporters is very funny.

During presidential elections, majority of the electorates in Kano State and other Northern states voted for Buhari. They accused those Northerners of being politically primitive and underage voting.

Then came governorship election and PDP is top in Kano, Sokoto, Bauchi, etc with already collated results, they are now praising Northerners of being politically sophisticated. Nobody is talking about underage voting again.

Mark my word. If the results of supplementary elections favour APC, the song will change once again. By the way the results so far are too close to call, which means none of the candidates enjoy absolute support. This means it could go either way and it doesn't have to be in favour of PDP for the elections to be considered free, fair and credible.

keep crying ode

any inconclusive election will favor apc at the end. Osun state a case study.

Only INEC can rig election successfully

Like the man said, Northerners are not Osun people who are docile. Why cant they rig in Enugu or Abia?

GuntersChain:
any inconclusive election will favor apc at the end. Osun state a case study.

Nothing will happen if Gandollar wins? Did you see the protests in Kano?

Roger3D:
Who go win go win and nothing will happen. 1 battalion of soldiers and one week curfew is enough to put sense into the heads of any trouble makers. Nobody can disturb the peace of Nigeria on account of an election loss

Kano State has an uneasy peace, INEC should be careful!

Its the truth

Will set Kano on fire and not Nigeria. They should face their worries.

slivertongue:
a coup d'etat will reset the brain of all these desperados

HONESTLY
Nigeria's literally on the brink of a revolution

Tickling time bomb

lagdmark:
Kano ist not River State INEC and Apc will not like what the northern youths will do to dem If they rig it. They've thousands of volunteers ready to die.

they DNT know the northern youths na
they think is jus like the stupid guys who claims arrogant but are nt in south

The problem here is having an ear to listen to the clarion call. Also most importantly is that what ever negative tendency that comes with the election, will have no effect to the entire country as been speculated.

INEC/Buhari no dey hear something but na this Kano election go teach them bitter lesson. PDP has won Kano, give it to them or be ready to face one million Kano almajiris to deal with. This one na Fulani Vs Fulani.
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Kwankwassiya is waiting and ready.

Point of correction It'll set Kano on Fire.

While it is true that INEC is meant to be independent, the President still needs to call his men to order and to do that very quickly.

Politics in Nigeria is too much of a do or die affair.

What is playing out now is 2023 and not even 2019.

Some desperados are clearing the ground ready so they can have 'rigging advantage' in 2023.

PMB, please call your boys and girls to order.

it can not

Set Kano on fire dont dragg the whole of naija into it.