{"id":62550,"date":"2018-11-18T15:37:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T14:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=62550"},"modified":"2018-11-18T15:38:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T14:38:48","slug":"katsina-speaker-abubakar-kusada-wins-reps-bye-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=62550","title":{"rendered":"Katsina Speaker Abubakar Kusada Wins Reps Bye Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Katsina-Speaker-Abubakar-Kusada-Wins-Reps-Bye-Election.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Alhaji Abubakar Kusada of the All Progressives Congress(APC) as winner of the bye-election into the House of Representatives .<\/p>\n<p>The election was conducted in the Kankiya\/Kusada\/Ingawa Federal constituency in Katsina state on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Kusada was the speaker of Katsina state House of Assembly before his  election today.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Adedayo Hamza, the returning officer who announced the result on Saturday in Kankiya said Kusada scored 48,518 votes to emerge winner.<\/p>\n<p>Alhaji Abdussamad Yusuf of PDP came second with 20,193 votes, while Nasiru Kankiya of the Peoples Redemption Party scored 1,810 votes as second runner-up.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullahi Umar of the Yes Electorate Solidarity (YES) got 221 votes.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hamza, the total number of registered voters in the constituency is 193,904, while the number of accredited voters was 74,242.<\/p>\n<p>The number of valid votes cast was 70,742 and rejected votes 2,331.The total number of votes cast was 73,073.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Festus Okoye, the INEC National Commissioner, advised political parties to intensify voter education and management of polling units.<\/p>\n<p>He commended the political parties, security agencies, mediamen and other stakeholders for the peaceful conduct of the bye election.<\/p>\n<p>(NAN)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Alhaji Abubakar Kusada of the All Progressives Congress(APC) as winner of the bye-election into the House of Representatives . The election was conducted in the Kankiya\/Kusada\/Ingawa Federal constituency in Katsina state on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Kusada was the speaker of Katsina state House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}