The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has emerged as the winner of the rerun election in Lere West state constituency of Kaduna.
The election that was held on Saturday, February 21, saw Idris Katako, candidate of the APC, beat, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP), candidate, Dr Dogara Mato, who is the former Deputy Speaker of the State House of Assembly.
Results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), revealed that, Katako polled a total of 17, 672 votes to defeat the PDP candidate, who polled 10, 772 votes.
By this victory, the APC has 28 members in the State House of Assembly while PDP has 6 members.
The earlier election held in the Constituency in 2015 was won by the APC’s candidate, Kabir Mohammed, but his victory was nullified by the Tribunal on the ground that he was not qualified to stand for the election.
The Tribunal had however, ordered INEC to conduct a fresh election within 90 days and again an APC candidate emerged.
In a related development, Mr Jackson Dandali of the APC has also been declared winner of the rerun election in Pankshin North Constituency of Plateau State also held on Saturday.
The INEC released results so far read, the APC candidate polled 17,320 against the PDP candidate who polled 16, 817.
The result of Pankshin South is still being collated.
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