Nigerian politicians are notorious for not accepting defeat.

This explains why politics in Nigerians is acrimonious and self-serving. The recent supplementary elections in Kano State was transparently won by the incumbent governor Dr. Abdullahi Umar Gandujeof the All Progressive Congress (APC). It would do the Kano State PDP gubernatorial candidate, Abba Kabir Yusuf a world of good to toe the Bauchi State governor’s example to concede defeat and join the winner of the election, AbdullahiGanduje to develop the state instead of engaging in blackmailing the police and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) who did their best to conduct a peaceful and transparent supplementary election.

In a press statement made available to journalists by a civil society group, Peace and Media Advocacy and signed by the national coordinator, Comrade James Okoronkwo, the group appealed to the Kano State PDP governorship candidate Abba Kabir Yusuf to bury the hatchet noting that “right from his imposition as the PDP guber candidate, Abba Kabir‘s candidacy was fraught with disdain and ridicule which alienated PDP stakeholders and voters in Kano State culminating to his defeat“.

Continuing, the group noted that the Kano State March 9 governorship election was marred by over voting and thumb-printing by PDP agents which forced the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) to conduct a supplementary election in some polling units in 28 local government areas of the state.

Peace and Media Advocacy lambasted the PDP candidate for fraudulently posting scenes of violence from other states in the social media to support his dubious claim that the supplementary election in Kano State was fraught with violence noting that there is no documentary evidence to that effect. Finally, the group urged the authorities and the general public to discountenance the claims of the Kano State PDP Candidate Abba Kabir Yusuf as his wild allegations are baseless, self-serving and illogical.