BEVERLY HILLS, August 09, (THEWILL) – Ismail Danbaba, the All Progressives Congress candidate for the Nasarawa Central State Constituency in the state House of Assembly, has been declared winner of Saturday’s bye-election.
Announcing the result, the Independent National Electoral Commission Returning Officer, Mr Iiyasu Umar said the APC candidate scored 7,475 to defeat Mr Bage Nuhu of the Peoples Democratic Party, who got 4,608 votes.
According to Umar, during the bye-election, 12,217 votes were cast, while 12,083 valid votes were recorded with 134 rejected votes.
“By the power conferred on me as the Returning Officer of this election, I hereby declared the APC candidate the winner, having scored the highest number of votes cast,’’ he declared.
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INEC scheduled the Nasarawa Central bye-election following the death of the member representing Nasarawa Central constituency at the state House of Assembly, Alhaji Suleiman Adamu, on April 30.