INEC Axes Majority Leader, Doguwa From Reps-elect List Amid Murder Trial

Abiola Olawale
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has delisted the name of the embattled Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Ado Doguwa, from the list of Reps-elect to receive Certificate of Return on Wednesday.

It was gathered that Doguwa was not among the names of Reps-elect released by INEC.

The New Diplomat reports that Doguwa scored 39,732 votes to defeat his closest rival, Salisu Abdullahi of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), who polled 34,798 votes.

The Returning Officer, Prof. Ibrahim Yakasai, announced the result on February 26 at the Tudun Wada INEC office, with reports emerging that he made the declaration under duress.

However, in the newly-released list of members-elect, Doguwa’s name was conspicuously missing.

It would be recalled that following election violence recorded in the constituency after the February 25 election, the police in Kano arrested and charged Doguwa, alongside others, for criminal conspiracy, and culpable homicide.

Doguwa was thereafter taken before a magistrate’s court and was subsequently remanded in prison.

But a Federal High Court in Kano on Monday released him on a N500 million bail, but barred him from his constituency during the coming governorship and state assembly elections.

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