Alhassan Doguwa, the current Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, has been declared the winner of the Doguwa/Tudun Wada federal constituency election in Kano, Nigeria.
The returning officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Sani Ibrahim, announced the results on Saturday, revealing that Doguwa secured 41,573 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Yushau Salisu of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), who got 34,831 votes.
The supplementary election was held in eight wards in Tudunwada LGA on Saturday.
INEC had initially announced Doguwa as the winner of the February 25 election for the federal constituency but later declared it inconclusive due to reports of overvoting and disruption of voting in some polling units in the area.
When the election was declared inconclusive, Doguwa was leading with 39,732 votes, while Salisu had 34,798 votes.
The rerun election was, therefore, organized to determine the winner of the federal constituency election.
