Professor Sagir Adamu Abbas has defeated three other contestants to emerge the winner of the community acceptance poll, a major process in the selection of a new Vice-Chancellor in Bayero University, Kano.

Prof. Adamu, a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic, polled 1,026 votes to beat his closest rival, Professor Adamu Idris Tanko, who got 416 votes.

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Daily Trust gathered that the community acceptance/preference of university community poll is very important in determining who emerges the Vice-Chancellor.

The final stage of the process is expected to take place on Saturday when the contestants face the selection board.

Abbas, a professor of Mathematics, started his career with the university as an Assistant Lecturer in 1991 and rose to become a professor.