THE Kano State Police Command has announced a 24-hour curfew across the state.
The state Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Usaini Gumel, disclosed this in a statement he signed Wednesday evening.
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His decision followed growing apprehension across the state after the State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sacked Abba Kabir Yusuf as the state governor and declared the All Progressives Congress candidate, Nasir Gawuna, as the winner of the March 18 governorship poll.
Yusuf was the candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) led by the state’s former Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), through its returning officer, Ahmed Ibrahim, a professor, had declared Yusuf the winner.
The commission said Yusuf won with 1,019,602 to beat Gawuna, whom it claimed polled 890,705.
Delivering its judgement, the three-person tribunal on Wednesday ordered INEC to withdraw the certificate of return issued to Yusuf and give it to Nasiru Gawuna.
The panel, presided over by Oluyemi Akintan-Osadebay, deducted 165,663 votes from Yusuf’s total votes.
The court declared the deducted votes as invalid because the ballot papers were not stamped or signed.
Police in the state said on Wednesday that they had dispatched a combined team of officers across the city to enforce the curfew.