Kano’s Deputy Governor Nasir Gawun and the commissioner in charge of local government and chieftaincy affairs, Sule Garo were arrested 2-m on Monday as they came to disruot collation at the INEC centre.
The announcement of results had to be suspended as some youth suspected to be supporters of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) tried to attack the two officials.
As at the time of their arrest, results from 43 of Kano’s 44 local governments had been announced and the PDP candidate, Abba Yusuf, was leading the incumbent Abdullahi Ganduje of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The PDP candidate has so far scored 960,004 votes, and Ganduje of the APC has 953,522 votes.