THE Independent National Electoral Commission on Saturday declared Mansur Mashi of the All Progressive Congress (APC), as the winner of the supplementary election into the Mashi/Dutsi Federal Constituency. Prof Hudu Ayuba, the returning officer, said Mashi scored 30,719 votes against 22,690 votes scored by Malam Nazifi Yusuf of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). He said in the supplementary election held in the six affected polling units in Dutsi local government the APC scored 934 votes while PDP got 217 votes out of the 1,177 votes cast. Similarly, in the nine polling units in Mashi local government area, the APC scored 1,6332 against PDP’s 676 votes out of the 2,231 total votes cast. Ayuba announced that a total of 3,382 votes were cast during the Saturday election out of the 9,089 registered voters in the affected polling units.

Source: Nigerian Tribune February 11, 2018 08:26 UTC