Breaking: APC candidate wins Katsina north by-election (Full result)
Ahmad Babba-Kaita who is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has reportedly won the senatorial by-election in Katsina north which took place on Saturday, August 11.
Premium Times reports that although the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has not confirmed it yet, the result pasted at the collation centre showed that the APC candidate polled 224, 607 votes.
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He defeated five other candidates including his elder brother Kabir Babba-Kaita who is the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and had 59, 724 votes.
The other results indicated that GPN candidate scored 1056, DA got 796, MPN secured 633 while MMN got 343 votes to emerge third, fourth, fifth and sixth respectively.
The demise of Senator Mustapha Bukar in April necessitated the by-election.
NAIJ.com had reported that the bye-election to fill the vacant seat in the Lokoja-Kogi federal constituency which started on a peaceful note on Saturday, August 11, was later marred by violence, vote buying and intimidation in Lokoja.
A News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent monitoring reported that the election was marred by political thugs going from one polling unit to another to perpetrate fraud.
Although policemen and other security agents were seen at the police stations, they looked the other way, while thugs terrorised people.
At the polling unit at Paparanda Square, voting could not hold as thugs invaded the venue, snatching election materials and beating up people queuing to vote.
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The same scenario played out at polling units at Mary Primary School, Karaworo, Adnakolo and Crowther Secondary School, where thugs also disrupted voting.
At Adankolo, some thugs threw stones on people queueing to cast their votes at one of the polling units, chasing them away.
Some of voters who came in their vehicles had their windscreens smashed.
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Source: Naija.ng