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By Mohammed Munirat Nasir (Zamfara State Correspondent)

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Ibrahim Tukur, the winner of the Bakura State Constituency bye-election rerun held today.

The Bakura Constituency Returning Officer, Professor Yahaya Tanko Baba of the Department of Political Sciences, Usman Danfodio University (UDUS) Sokoto said the PDP candidate scored 23,874 votes to edge out his closest rival, Alhaji Bello Dankande Gamji of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who polled 16,546 votes.

It will be recalled that during Saturday's election which was declared inconclusive by INEC, the PDP got 18,645 votes while the APC got 16,464 votes while elections in 14 polling units with 11,429 voters were canceled, which made INEC to fix today for the rerun to determine the winner.

The APC on Tuesday pulled out of the rerun election over with it called intimidation and harassment of it members by security agencies at the polling units.

The PDP in its reaction to the pulling out of the APC described the action as a face-saving act as the APC knows that it would be disgraced politically by the PDP. NNL.

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By Mohammed Munirat Nasir (Zamfara State Correspondent)

Zamfara state governor, Dr Bello Mohammed Matawalle, has accused former governor Alhaji Abdul'Aziz Yari Abubakar and the Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Maigari Dingyadi of being the brains behind the attack on Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) supporters in Bakura local government area on Thursday.

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By Eucharia Idenyi (Ebonyi State correspondent)

Former Senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim, has raised the alarm, that the recent allegation against him and some notable Ebonyi State political leaders including the former governor of the state and a serving Senator for Ebonyi North, Senator Sam Ominyi Egwu, of plot to cause violence in the state by the governor, Engr Dave Nweze Umahi, was a ruse and a mere scheme to silence them by the governor, for refusing to defect with him to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC).

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By Celestine Okafor (Publisher/Editor-in-Chief)

Amidst unresolved leadership issues within the umbrella body of Nigeria's registered political parties, the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), acting President of the splinter group of IPAC and founding national chairman of the opposition African Democratic Congress (ADC), Chief Ralphs Okey Nwosu, has revealed that IPAC, under his leadership, is embarking on a comprehensive leadership development drive and strengthening of the organization.

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