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The Independent National Electoral Commission,INEC has announced Alhaji Abubakar Murtala of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winner of the Jigawa State Assembly by-election in Ringim Constituency of Jigawa, which was held on Saturday.
According to NAN, Alhaji Umar Sani,INEC Chief Returning Officer, said that the PDP candidate polled 22,431 to defeat his closest rival who is of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and scored 11,533 votes.
The re-run election followed the death of the former Deputy Speaker of the state assembly, Alhaji Inuwa Udi in a road accident last August.
Sani said that eight political parties participated in the by-election.
Reacting to their electoral loss, Alhaji Farouq Aliyu,an APC Chieftain alleged irregularities in the election, saying APC had been robbed of its electoral victory. He said the party had written a petition to INEC challenging the results of the by-election.
He alleged that election in some polling units were inconclusive because of the violence that erupted in those areas. (NAN)