The candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Ahmed Wadada, has been declared the winner of the Nasarawa West Senatorial District election held on February 25.
According to results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Mr Wadada polled 96,488 votes to defeat his closest rival and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, who scored 47,717 votes.
Nasirudeen Baba, INEC Returning Officer for the Nasarawa West Senatorial District election, made the declaration after the collation of results on Monday at the Zonal collation centre in Keffi Local Government Area of the state.
Declaring the result, the returning officer said, “I Associate Professor Nasirudeen Baba, hereby certify that I am the returning officer for the 2023 Nasarawa West Senatorial District election held on the 25th of February, 2023.
“That Wadada Ahmed of SDP having satisfied the requirements of the law is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” he said.
Mr Baba added that Musa Galadima of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, scored 46820 votes while Bala Tongurma of Labour Party scored 33,228 votes.
He said total votes cast for the election was 234040, while total valid votes amounted to 228917 with 5123 votes rejected.
Mr Wadada, a former member of the House of Representatives, will be replacing the current national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the Senate.
In April, Mr Adamu who represented the district resigned from the Senate after he emerged as the national of the ruling party, but the electoral umpire didn’t conduct a by-election.
