APC Wins Nasarawa State Assembly Bye-election

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All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Mr. Ismail Danbaba, has won the bye-election for the Nasarawa state House of Assembly seat.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Returning Officer, Mr Iiyasu Umar, announced the result of the bye-election conducted on Saturday in Nasarawa. He said the APC candidate, Danbaba scored 7,475 to defeat Mr Bage Nuhu of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) who got 4,608 votes.Danbaba new

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Danbaba is from the state’s Central Constituency.

At the bye-election, 12,217 votes were cast, while 12,083 valid votes were recorded with 134 rejected votes.

INEC had scheduled the Nasarawa Central bye-election following the death of the member representing Nasarawa Central constituency at the state House of Assembly, Alhaji Suleiman Adamu (APC), on April 30.

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'Dotun Akintomide
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'Dotun Akintomide's journalism works intersect business, environment, politics and developmental issues. Among a number of local and international publications, his work has appeared in the New York Times. He's a winner of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Award. Currently, the Online Editor at The New Diplomat, Akintomide has produced reports that uniquely spoke to Nigeria's experience on Climate Change issues. When Akintomide is not writing, volunteering or working on a media project, you can find him seeing beautiful sites like the sandy beaches that bedecked the Lagos coastline.

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