The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)? has declared Malam Bello Kaoje of PDP as the winner of Bagudo/Suru Federal Constituency ?re-run election held on Saturday.
The Returning Officer, Mr Shehu Abubakar of Othman Danfodio University, Sokoto, announced that Kaoje secured 74,232 votes to beat Malam Garba Abdullahi of CPC, who scored 17527 votes.
The re-run election, which held on Saturday alongside the re-run governorship election in the state, was necessitated by the ??annulment of the election conducted in ?April 2011.
The News Agency ?of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the ?Election Petition Tribunal in Kebbi had nullified the election of Kaoje in April and awarded victory to the CPC candidate in the election
However, the PDP candidate appealed against the judgment at the Court of Appeal in Kaduna, which cancelled the results in 154 polling units, which were the cause of the legal dispute.
Meanwhile, the CPC Secretary, Malam Bashir Matawalle, has said that the party would challenge the result because INEC it the mandatory 14 days notice before conducting the election.
?NAN recalls that INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, had told the CPC at a stakeholders’ meeting before the election to go to court if it was not satisfied with the commission’s decision. (NAN)