Bauchi South Senatorial Bye-election Won By APC Candidate

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Mr Lawan Gumau, the All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate, has won the Bauchi South Senatorial District Bye-election, held on Saturday.

Prof. Ahmed Sarkin-Pagam, the Returning Officer, announced the result in Bauchi on Sunday, said Gumau scored 119,489 votes to defeat eight other contestants, amongst them, the immediate past governor of the state, Mr Isa Yuguda of the Green Party of Nigeria, who polled 33,079 votes.

The Returning Officer said other candidates were Haruna Ayuba of ADC who got 1754 Votes; Aminu Tukur of APP scored 11,717 votes; Usman Hassan of KP with 240 votes and Huseini Umar of NNPP scored 22,896 votes.

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Prof. Ahmed Sarkin-Pagam, 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 further disclosed that a total of 256,763 votes were cast, out of which 245,652 were valid and 11,111 invalid.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports, the bye-election was conducted to elect a representative for Bauchi South Senatorial District, sequel to the death of Sen. Ali Wakili on March 17.

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With the APC winning the bye-election, in Bauchi State, it 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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