The All
Progressives Congress candidate, Mr. Lawan Gumau, has won the Bauchi South
Senatorial District bye-election, held on Saturday.
Announcing
the result in Bauchi on Sunday, the Returning Officer, Prof. Ahmed
Sarkin-Pagam, said Gumau scored 119,489 votes to defeat eight other
contestants, among them, the immediate past governor of the state, Mr. Isa
Yuguda of the Green Party of Nigeria, who polled 33,079 votes.
He said
other candidates were Haruna Ayuba of ADC who garnered 1,754 votes; Aminu Tukur
of APP who scored 11,717 votes; Usman Hassan of KP with 240 votes; and Huseini
Umar of NNPP who scored 22,896 votes.
The
Returning Officer gave the scores of the remaining candidates as Usman Chaledi
of PDC, 1,203 votes; Ladan Salihu of PDP, 50,256 votes, and Mrs. Maryam Begel
of SDP, 3,800 votes.
He said a
total of 256,763 votes were cast, out of which 245,652 were valid and 11,111
invalid.
The News
Agency of Nigeria reports that the bye-election was conducted to elect a
representative for Bauchi-South Senatorial District, sequel to the death of
Senator Ali Wakil on March 17.
With the
outcome of the bye-election, APC in Bauchi now has only one senator because the
other two, Isa Misau and Nazif Gamawa, formerly of the APC, have defected to
the PDP.
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