Shehu Sale of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has emerged winner of by-election for the House of Representatives seat of the Magama/Rijau Federal Constituency of Niger.
The INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Tanko Baba of the Usman Danfodio University Sokoto, declared Sale winner of the Saturday’s exercise.
According to Baba, Sale polled 22,965 votes to defeat his closest rival Alamu Emmanuel of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who came second with 22,507 votes.
Baba said the candidate of the ADC, Yusuf Nasir, polled 336 votes.
Candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Hashim Danjuma, who won the previous election had earlier been disqualified by the courts on grounds that he submitted forged documents to INEC.
The returning officer disclosed that the total number of registered voters was 159,347, while the number of accredited voters was 46,734, with 45,808 valid votes, total votes cast 46,499 and rejected votes 691.
Prof. Samuel Egwu, the Niger State Resident Electoral Commissioner, on Sunday, hailed the electorate in the constituency for their peaceful conduct during and after the election.
Egwu also lauded efforts of the police for providing a peaceful and conducive political atmosphere before and during the electoral process in the area.
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