The 2019 Kano governorship election was declared inconclusive by INEC on March 9, with the margin between the top two candidates less than the cancelled votes. Abba Yusuf, then candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had polled 1,014,353 votes ahead of Abdullahi Ganduje, then candidate of APC, who secured 953,522 votes, leaving a margin of 26,655 votes. A total of 100,873 votes were cancelled.
A supplementary election took place in the 28 affected Kano LGAs, and at the end of the election, Ganduje was declared winner after he polled 45,876 votes, while Kabir of the PDP got 10,239 votes. The total results showed that Ganduje scored 1,033,695 votes, while Yusuf polled 1,024,713 votes.
In 2019, Yusuf and Kwankwaso were members of the PDP. In January 2020, the supreme court dismissed the appeal filed by Yusuf and affirmed Ganduje’s victory. In 2023, Yusuf was elected governor of Kano on the NNPP platform, with Kwankwaso and his political movement, Kwankwasiyya, playing a significant role in his election.
