Following the adoption of electronic voting in yesterday’s local government elections in Kaduna State, which prevented rigging, Governor Mallam Nasir El-Rufai lost his polling unit to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party .
Announcing the results for the El-Rufai’s Angwan Sarki 001 polling unit, the Presiding Officer, Mr. Mohammed Sani, said the PDP scored 86 votes in the chairmanship election, while the All Progressives Congress got 62 votes.The governor had earlier in an interview after casting his vote, expressed disappointment over the low turnout of voters in the council polls.The governor said there were challenges in some polling units as wrong machines were given.
El-Rufai said the improved voting machine being used for the elections makes it nearly impossible to do multiple voting which, according to him, “happened a lot in 2018.” “So, we are very happy with the improvement and we are pleased that this time it will be extremely difficult for anyone to rig these elections.”
“This is why we encourage SIECOM to come up with a very improved, full proof system and I am happy that they have done that. “I think that people didn’t come out to vote because of the general hardship in the country”, one of the party agents said.
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