APC wins Kaduna Assembly seat

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Abbas Faisal of the All Progressives Congress (APC) the winner of the by-election for the Kudan House of Assembly seat in Kaduna State.

INEC returning officer Dauda Aminu announced the results on Sunday in Hunkuyi, saying Faisal secured 22,993 votes to defeat his closest rival, Nura Abdulkarim of the Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) , which received 22,878 votes.

He added that Sulaiman Umar of Labor Party (LP) got 1,463 votes and Shehu Doka of NNPP got 1,058 votes.

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"Having met the requirements of the law and obtained the highest number of votes, Abbas Faisal of the APC is re-elected," he said. (NAN)

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