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| Lawan Yahaya Gumau Bauchi south senatorial by-election winner |
Announcing the result in Bauchi on Sunday, the Returning
Officer, Prof. Ahmed Sarkin-Pagam, said Gumau scored 119,489 votes thereby
defeating eight other contestants.
The immediate past governor of the state, Mr Isa Yuguda of
the Green Party of Nigeria, had 33,079 votes.
He said other candidates were Haruna Ayuba of ADC who
garnered 1754 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, 1203 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 (NAN) reports that the
by-election was conducted to elect a representative for Bauchi South Senatorial
District.
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