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The 2023 Kebbi State gubernatorial election will take place on 18 March 2023, to elect the Governor of Kebbi State, concurrent with elections to the Kebbi State House of Assembly as well as twenty-seven other gubernatorial elections and elections to all other state houses of assembly. [1] [2] The election—which was postponed from its original 11 March date—will be held three weeks after the presidential election and National Assembly elections. [3] Incumbent APC Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu is term-limited and cannot seek re-election to a third term.
Party primaries were scheduled for between 4 April and 9 June 2022 with the Peoples Democratic Party nominating former Army major general Aminu Bande on 25 May while the All Progressives Congress nominated teachers' union leader Nasir Idris on 26 May. [4] [5]
The Governor of Kebbi State is elected using a modified two-round system. To be elected in the first round, a candidate must receive the plurality of the vote and over 25% of the vote in at least two-thirds of state local government areas. If no candidate passes this threshold, a second round will be held between the top candidate and the next candidate to have received a plurality of votes in the highest number of local government areas.
Kebbi State is a diverse, northwestern state with a growing economy but is facing rising insecurity and desertification. Politically, the 2019 elections confirmed the state's status as one of the most staunchly APC states in the nation as both Buhari and Atiku Bagudu won the state by wide margins and every single legislative seat on the senatorial, House of Representatives, and House of Assembly levels were carried by APC nominees.
At the beginning of his term, Atiku Bagudu said his administration would focus on economic diversification, further improving immunization levels, and infrastructure. [6] In terms of his performance, Atiku Bagudu was commended for environmental protection and agricultural development but was criticized for new revelations to his previously-known looting of state funds during the Abacha administration involving his renewed attempts to retake some of the stolen funds that had been seized and his desperate attempts to keep hold of the loot still in his possession. [7] [8] [9] [10]
The primaries, along with any potential challenges to primary results, will take place between 4 April and 3 June 2022. [2] An informal zoning gentlemen's agreement sets the Kebbi South Senatorial District to have the next governor as Kebbi South has never produced a governor. However, another interpretation of zoning based on the traditional emirates in the state would set up the Argungu, Yauri and Zuru emirates to produce the next governor as the largest Gwandu Emirate has held the office for much of the state's history. [11] However, no major party has yet formally zoned their primaries.
Analysts view the APC gubernatorial primary as a likely battle between the preexisting major factions within the Kebbi State APC with one faction led by outgoing governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu and the other faction led by Kebbi Central Senator and former governor Adamu Aliero. Aliero was reportedly backing the gubernatorial candidacy of Kebbi North Senator Yahaya Abubakar Abdullahi while conflicting reports stated that Atiku Bagudu was supporting Attorney-General Abubakar Malami or former Finance Commissioner Ibrahim Muhammad Augie; an added element of the party crisis is the supposed ambition of Atiku Bagudu to run against Aliero in the Kebbi Central senatorial primary. [12] [11] Tensions between the factions reached a head in late 2021 when Aliero's faction broke away and elected separate leadership to Atiku Bagudu's faction setting up a dispute over which was the legitimate party organization. [13] [14] [15] As Atiku Bagudu is a serving governor, his faction was recognized by the national party in February 2022 but the internal rift has remained as questions of zoning and godfather support have continued. [11] Further controversy arose when Malami officially announced his candidacy, firstly that Malami refused to resign as attorney-general in accordance with the Electoral Act and secondly when photos emerged of over two hundred luxury cars Malami gave to delegates as bribes. [16] [17] However, when finally directed to resign by Buhari in May 2022, Malami instead dropped out of the gubernatorial race amid reports that he did not believe he could win the primary. [18] [19]
After Malami withdrew, union leader Nasir Idris was drafted in by allies of Atiku Bagudu to run as the governor's anointed candidate instead. [26] On the primary date, the three candidates contested an indirect primary that ended with Idris emerging as the party gubernatorial nominee after results showed him winning just under 97% of the delegates' votes. In his acceptance speech, Idris thanked delegates and pledged to lead the state well while Abdullahi, who got zero votes, rejected the results as fabricated before defecting to the PDP a few weeks later. [5] [27] [28]
In the five candidate primary, former Army major general Aminu Bande won by a substantial margin of about 51% of the votes cast. [4] In his acceptance speech at the primary venue in Birnin Kebbi, Bande vowed to carry the party to victory and rehabilitate the state.
In the wake of the primaries, mass defections riddled both major parties as aggrieved APC members led by Adamu Aliero and Yahaya Abubakar Abdullahi decamped to the PDP while the APC also wooed defectors as a campaign tactic. The Aliero vs. Bagudu dispute that dominated Kebbi APC politics in the years prior to the primaries and into the gubernatorial general election campaign was compounded by the fact that Aliero and Bagudu were running against each other for the Kebbi Central senatorial seat. [44] As the elections neared, campaigning intensified in December and January with Idris vowed to improve education and agriculture while Bande promised to combat banditry using his military experience. [45]
By February, attention largely switched to the presidential election on 25 February. In the election, Kebbi State voted for Atiku Abubakar (PDP); Abubakar won 50.1% of the vote to defeat Bola Tinubu (APC) at 44.3%. Although the close result was unsurprising, the close margin and PDP win led to increased attention on the competitiveness of the gubernatorial race. Additionally, Bagudu lost to Aliero in the senatorial race and internal APC strife continued while the PDP grew from its federal election successes and zoning dynamics. [46] The EiE-SBM forecast projected Bande to win while a Vanguard piece labeled the election as a "50-50" race. [47] [48]
Source | Projection | As of | |
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Africa Elects [lower-alpha 1] [49] | Lean Bande | 17 March 2023 | |
Enough is Enough- SBM Intelligence [lower-alpha 2] [47] | Bande | 2 March 2023 | |
On 26 February 2022, the Independent National Electoral Commission released the timetable, setting out key dates and deadlines for the election. [50] Months later on 27 May 2022, INEC made a slight revision to the timetable, allowing parties extra time to conduct primaries. [51]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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AA | ||||
ADP | ||||
APP | ||||
AAC | ||||
ADC | ||||
APM | ||||
APC | ||||
APGA | ||||
BP | ||||
LP | ||||
NNPP | ||||
NRM | ||||
PDP | ||||
PRP | ||||
SDP | ||||
YPP | ||||
ZLP | ||||
Total votes | 100.00% | |||
Turnout | ||||
The results of the election by senatorial district.
Senatorial District | Nasir Idris APC | Aminu Bande PDP | Others | Total Valid Votes | |||
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Votes | Percentage | Votes | Percentage | Votes | Percentage | ||
Kebbi Central Senatorial District [lower-alpha 5] | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD |
Kebbi North Senatorial District [lower-alpha 6] | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD |
Kebbi South Senatorial District [lower-alpha 7] | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD |
Totals | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD |
The results of the election by federal constituency.
Federal Constituency | Nasir Idris APC | Aminu Bande PDP | Others | Total Valid Votes | |||
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Votes | Percentage | Votes | Percentage | Votes | Percentage | ||
Aleiro/Gwandu/Jega Federal Constituency [lower-alpha 8] | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD |
Arewa/Dandi Federal Constituency [lower-alpha 9] | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD |
Argungu/Augie Federal Constituency [lower-alpha 10] | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD |
Bagudo/Suru Federal Constituency [lower-alpha 11] | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD |
Bunza/Birnin Kebbi/Kalgo Federal Constituency [lower-alpha 12] | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD |
Fakai/Sakaba/Wasagu/Danko/Zuru Federal Constituency [lower-alpha 13] | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD |
Koko-Besse/Maiyama Federal Constituency [lower-alpha 14] | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD |
Ngaski/Shanga/Yauri Federal Constituency [lower-alpha 15] | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD |
Totals | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD |
The results of the election by local government area.
LGA | Nasir Idris APC | Aminu Bande PDP | Others | Total Valid Votes | Turnout Percentage | |||
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Votes | Percentage | Votes | Percentage | Votes | Percentage | |||
Aleiro | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % |
Arewa Dandi | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % |
Argungu | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % |
Augie | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % |
Bagudo | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % |
Birnin Kebbi | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % |
Bunza | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % |
Dandi | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % |
Fakai | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % |
Gwandu | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % |
Jega | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % |
Kalgo | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % |
Koko/Besse | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % |
Maiyama | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % |
Ngaski | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % |
Sakaba | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % |
Shanga | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % |
Suru | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % |
Wasagu/Danko | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % |
Yauri | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % |
Zuru | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % |
Totals | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % | TBD | % |
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