- As El-Rufai loses polling unit to PDP
No fewer than 41 Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) were snatched by hoodlums during the Council polls in Kaduna state, according to Mrs Saratu Audu-Dikko, Chairman of Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission (KADSIECOM).
Audu-Dikko told newsmen on Saturday that the machines were snatched in Giwa and Igabi Local Government Areas.
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According to her, this figure excludes EVMs destroyed by same people during the elections.
“Thirty EVMs were carted away at Kwarau in Igabi Local Government, with two destroyed, while nine others at Panhauya in Giwa Local Government, were equally vandalised.
“The hoodlums also carted away election materials and assaulted the driver and staff of the Commission conveying the materials,” she explained.
The Chairman said that some other staff of the Commission, including ad-hoc staff, were also assaulted in those places.
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won the chairmanship and councillorship seats in Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s Unguwar Sarki polling unit in Kaduna North Local Government Area.
El-Rufai, a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), had earlier voted at the polling unit where he also declared that he is not desperate to win at all costs, but to improve the voting process using the EVM.
According to the Governor, the introduction of the electronic voting system by his administration has clearly shown that the APC-led government in Kaduna state does not believe in cheating or rigging election.
Announcing the election result, the Presiding Officer of the Unit, Muhammad Sani, said the APC polled 62 votes in the chairmanship election, while the PDP scored 86 votes out of the 159 votes cast.
In the councillorship election, APC also polled 53 votes, while PDP garnered 100 votes out of 162 total votes cast.
