{"id":85568,"date":"2021-09-05T05:52:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T04:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=85568"},"modified":"2021-09-05T05:52:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T04:52:01","slug":"kaduna-41-evm-snatched-electoral-officers-assaulted-as-pdp-wins-at-el-rufais-polling-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/kaduna-41-evm-snatched-electoral-officers-assaulted-as-pdp-wins-at-el-rufais-polling-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaduna:\u00a041 EVM snatched, Electoral Officers assaulted as\u00a0PDP wins at El-Rufai&#8217;s Polling Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1710015195415105931\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have won during the Local Government election at Unguwan Sarki 01 Polling Unit where Governor Nasir El-Rufai cast his vote on Saturday.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe Presiding Officer, Muhammad Sani, who announced the results, of the total vote cast of 159, said the PDP polled 86 votes as against the APC\u2019s 62 votes for the chairmanship position.<\/p>\n<p>In the Councillorship result announced, the opposition PDP also defeated the ruling APC with 100 votes against 53.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Chairman of Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission (KADSIECOM),\u00a0Saratu Audu-Dikko, has said that\u00a0about 41 Electronic Voting Machines\u00a0 (EVM) were snatched and Electoral Officers assaulted during the election in Igabi and Giwa Local Government Areas.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cThirty 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,\u201d she said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have won during the Local Government election at Unguwan Sarki 01 Polling Unit where Governor Nasir El-Rufai cast his vote on Saturday.&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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