By Muhammad Nasir Bashir
TrackNigeria: Alhaji Ibrahim Kemba of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has won the Dutse/Kiyawa Federal Constituency election in Jigawa.
Announcing the result on Monday in Dutse, the Returning Officer, Malam Bukar Usman, said Kemba scored 66,428 votes to defeat his closest opponent, Aminu Wada Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who polled 37,08 votes.
He added that Shehu Sunusi Muhammad of the Action Alliance (AA), polled 5,444.
“That Ibrahim Abdullahi Kemba of APC having satisfied the requirements of the law and scored the highest number of votes, is hereby declared the winner and returned elected,” he said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Kemba is the serving House of Representative member for the constituency. (NAN)