Politics
APC Wins By-Election For Dass Constituency In Bauchi
Bala Ali of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has won the by-election for Dass Constituency in the Bauchi State House of Assembly.
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Returning Officer for the election, Professor Ahmed Mohammed of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University announced Ali as the winner of the poll on Saturday at the collation centre in the state.
According to him, the APC candidate polled a total of 12,299 votes to defeat Lawal Umar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 11,062 votes.
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The result was announced after the agent of the PDP raised an objection to the results announced.
While the PDP agent claimed that the exercise was disrupted and people left the premises, the agent of the APC insisted that nobody left the area.
In his response, the returning officer insisted on reading the results and asked the agents to put their complaints in writing.
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