The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has cancelled the election results of the majority leader of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado Doguwa.
It was learnt that the Returning Officer for the election, Professor Ibrahim Adamu Yakasai, announced the new development On Wednesday 8 March 2023.
The electoral umpire declared that there was no winner in the February 25 National Assembly Election in Doguwa and Tudunwada Federal Constituencies.
Doguwa, who contested on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was initially declared the winner of the election.
However, the electoral umpire delisted his name from the reps-elect and failed to issue him a certificate of return as the commission said the lawmaker was declared the winner of the election under duress.
This followed the arrest of Doguwa in connection with the violence which broke out in the constituency during the collation of the election where at least two people were killed when a secretariat of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) was set ablaze while in the area.
The lawmaker arraigned at a magistrate’s court which remanded him in prison but Doguwa was granted a N500 million bail and barred from Saturday’s election. Professor Ibrahim Adamu Yakasai, the Returning Officer for the election, announced the new development
