{"id":6980,"date":"2019-03-23T15:46:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T15:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=6980"},"modified":"2019-03-23T15:46:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T15:46:33","slug":"ganduje-vs-abba-yusuf-apc-replies-pdps-call-for-cancellation-of-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ganduje-vs-abba-yusuf-apc-replies-pdps-call-for-cancellation-of-election","title":{"rendered":"Ganduje vs Abba Yusuf: APC replies PDP\u2019s call for cancellation of election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The All Progressives Congress, APC, has responded to the call for the cancellation of the governorship election made by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kano State.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the APC in Kano, Alhaji Abdullahi Abbas, said there were no grounds for the cancellation of the rerun election currently going on in some parts of the State.<\/p>\n<p>the PDP had called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to totally cancel the election, citing invasion of the state by thugs.<\/p>\n<p>However, the APC denied all the allegations raised by the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>According to Abbas, \u201cThe call by the PDP for cancellation of election was uncalled-for because the election is still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cINEC should ensure conclusion of the election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPDP should wait for the final result of the poll and then take legal action if not satisfied with it. That is what the law provided.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think PDP failed to mobilise its people that\u2019s all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All Progressives Congress, APC, has responded to the call for the cancellation of the governorship election made by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kano State. Chairman of the APC in Kano, Alhaji Abdullahi Abbas, said there were no grounds for the cancellation of the rerun election currently going on in some parts of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[34,38,251,372,65],"class_list":["post-6980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-apc","tag-election","tag-inec","tag-kano","tag-pdp"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ganduje vs Abba Yusuf: APC replies PDP\u2019s call for cancellation of election - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ganduje-vs-abba-yusuf-apc-replies-pdps-call-for-cancellation-of-election\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ganduje vs Abba Yusuf: APC replies PDP\u2019s call for cancellation of election\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The All Progressives Congress, APC, has responded to the call for the cancellation of the governorship election made by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kano State. 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