- Doguwa wins reelection into House of Reps
- INEC declares PDP’s Dasuki winner of Kebbe Reps’ seat
- LP’s Eze wins Enugu supplementary election
Former Governor of Sokoto State and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Aliyu Wamakko, has been declared the winner of the Sokoto North Senatorial Election District.
Wamakko defeated his closest opponent, the state deputy governor, Manir Muhammad Dan’Iya, the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party with a margin of 23,023 votes.
Announcing the results Sunday morning, the Returning Officer for the Sokoto North senatorial election, Ibrahim Magawata, said after the supplementary elections, the candidate of the APC, Aliyu Wamakko, scored total number of 141,468 to defeat Manir Dan’Iya who garnered 118,445 votes.
With his victory at the polls, Wamakko is returning to the red chamber for the third term.
He was also the deputy governor to Attahiru Bafarawa for over seven years between 1999 and 2006 before he resigned to contest for governor following political differences.
Doguwa wins reelection into House of Reps
The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Doguwa, has been declared the winner of the Doguwa/Tudun Wada Federal Constituency election in Kano.
The Returning Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Sani Ibrahim, who announced the results on Saturday, said the lawmaker secured 41,573 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Yushau Salisu of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, who got 34,831 votes.
The Saturday supplementary election was held in eight wards in Tudun Wada LGA.
INEC had announced Doguwa as the winner of the February 25 election for the federal constituency but later declared it inconclusive.
There were reports of over voting and disruption of voting in some polling units in the area.
At the time the election was declared inconclusive, Doguwa was leading with 39,732 votes while Salisu had 34,798 votes.
Doguwa will be serving his fifth term when the 10th assembly is inaugurated in June.
INEC declares PDP’s Dasuki winner of Kebbe Reps’ seat
The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Abdusamad Dasuki, as the winner of the Kebbe/Tambuwal federal constituency election in Sokoto State.
Announcing the results on Sunday morning, the returning officer, Professor Abubakar Sidiq Muhammed, said the PDP candidate scored a total number of 47,317 votes to defeat his closest opponent, Kokani Bala Kebbe of the APC who garnered 34,282 votes.
Dasuki was in the Federal House of Representatives between 2015 and 2019 before he was defeated by Kokani during the 2019 general elections.
The lawmaker-elect was also the former Commissioner for Finance and will be returning to the National Assembly for the second term to replace APC’s Kokani Bala Kebbe, who had defeated him before.
LP’s Eze wins Enugu supplementary election
The Labour Party has won the just-concluded Oji River State Constituency supplementary election, held on Saturday.
The election was held at Oji-River Central School Polling Unit, Registration Area/Ward 11, which had 2,489 registered voters.
INEC had declared and returned LP’s candidate, Osita Eze, winner of the supplementary election with 108 votes (at the supplementary election) and already with over 300 votes outstanding (during the March 18 election) ahead of other contestants.
Eze defeated the incumbent, Jeff Mba, of the People’s Democratic Party, who secured 118 votes (at the supplementary election).
Reacting, the LP spokesperson in the state, Mcginger Ibeneme said that it was a hard-fought victory for the Oji River people as well as the beginning of their total political emancipation.
Ibeneme said that the people of Oji River and by extension the good people of Enugu State had clearly affirmed that they want genuine change and people-centred representation that would carry everybody along.
“We were brutalised and were not allowed to even campaign for the supplementary election by thugs, even as I was singled out and brutalised during the supplementary election, yesterday, as some of the opposition saw me as the leader of the political tsunami in Oji River.
“Our people and supporters were also intimidated by some thugs and misguided security agents working for the PDP but they stood their ground and stuck out their necks waiting for the worst. But at last, the Oji River people are liberated,” he said.
He added that the people of Oji River are currently celebrating the victory of the Labour Party in all the 2023 elections held.
