APC wins Ghari/Tsanyawa supplementary election in Kano

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has emerged winner of the Ghari/Tsanyawa supplementary election in Kano State. Announcing the result at about 6:10 a.m. on Sunday, the Returning Officer, Professor Muhammad Waziri of Bayero University, declared Garba Ya’u Gwarmai of the APC winner with 31,472 votes. PDP wins Minister of defence’s polling unit in Jigawa by-election […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has emerged winner of the Ghari/Tsanyawa supplementary election in Kano State.

Announcing the result at about 6:10 a.m. on Sunday, the Returning Officer, Professor Muhammad Waziri of Bayero University, declared Garba Ya’u Gwarmai of the APC winner with 31,472 votes.

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He defeated the candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Yusuf Ali Maigado, who polled 27,931 votes.

The supplementary poll was conducted after the initial election in the constituency was declared inconclusive.