THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Aliyu Wamakko, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as winner of the Sokoto North senatorial election, which held on Saturday, April 15.
Wamakko, a former governor of Sokoto state, will be retaining his seat in the Senate.
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He won the election with 141,468 votes, defeating his closest rival, the incumbent deputy governor of the state, Manir Muhammad Dan’Iya of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who polled 118,445 votes.
The supplementary elections in Sokoto state were for three senatorial and 11 federal constituency seats.
The state has the highest number of National Assembly seats where rerun elections were held.
Wamakko was the deputy to Attahiru Bafarawa, who was governor of the state between 1999 and 2006.
The duo fell out in 2007 and Wamakko resigned to contest for governorship.
Beloved John is an investigative reporter with International Centre for Investigative Reporting.
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