APC wins Chibok bye-election
Candidate of All Progressives Congress, Lawan Pogu, has been
declared winner of the Saturday House of Assembly by-election for Chibok
Constituency in Borno.
Returning Officer, Professor Baba Kyari-Waziri, said Pogu scored
9,101 votes to defeat his closest opponent of the People’s Democratic Party,
Habila Bello, who got 2,117 votes, while other candidates are Abdullahi Gambo
of African Democratic Congress, 69 votes; Hamid Zamzam of Action Democratic
Party, 63 votes; and Maina Sheriff of Social Democratic Party, 12 votes.
Abdullahi Lawan of
Allied People’s Movement, scored 48 votes; and Haruna Shettima of Action
People’s Party, got 17 votes, while, the Chibok by-election took place
following the death of the initial winner of the 2023 election, Nuhu Clerk.
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