Armstrong Bakam, BauchiThe candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Auwal Jatau, has been declared the winner of the rerun election of Zaki Local Government Federal Constituency of Bauchi State, which held on Saturday. Recall that the Court of Appeal, Jos Division, had, in November 2019, sacked the All Progressives Congress lawmaker, Umar Tata, representing Zaki Federal Constituency. The court then ordered INEC to conduct a rerun election in the area within 90 days. In the earlier election, Jatau got 15,405 votes while Tata got 15,307 votes. Jatau is currently the Commissioner of Health in Bauchi State.

Source: Punch January 25, 2020 21:20 UTC