The Kano state government has imposed a dawn-to-dusk curfew after the election victory of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP.
The NNPP, defeated the incumbent All Progressives Congress, APC, to win Saturday’s governorship election in the State.
Abba Kabir Yusuf of the NNPP was declared winner after polling 1,190,002 votes against his closest rival APC’s candidate, Nasir Gawuna, who had 800,9055 votes.
The State Government then imposed dawn-to-dusk curfew so as to avoid a breakdown of law and order.
Ahead of collating the results, some tension was generated from the collation of results of the governorship and state Assembly elections.
In a statement by the state Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Muhammad Garba, the government encouraged people to remain indoors.
He on Monday said that the decision was to prevent hoodlums from to causing chaos in the already made the situation tense.
The commissioner called on people in the state to remain indoors as security agents would not spare anyone or group bent on causing trouble.
Pictures and videos as seen on Dailypost however show that citizens have defy the curfew imposed and are celebrating on the streets
