The serving house of reps member for Gummi/Bukkuyum Hon. Suleiman Gummi Of PDP wins the Federal constituency seat In Zamfara for the second time.
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared Sulaiman Abubakar Gummi of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate for Gummi/ Bukuyum Federal Constituency in Zamfara as the winner of Saturday’s supplementary election conducted in the constituency.
Announcing the result, the INEC Collation Officer for the supplementary elections, Dr. Lawal Sa’ad said Sulaiman Gummi polled 35,664 votes to beat his closest opponent of the All Progressives APC Ahmad Muhammad, who scored 35,058 votes.
He said that, Gummi, having scored the highest number of votes and satisfied the requirements of the law, emerged as the winner of the election.
The last election was declared inconclusive between Sulaiman Abubakar Gummi and Ahmed Mohammed due to the cancellation of election results from over voting and violence at some polling units.
In a related development, the result of Tsafe/ Gusau Federal Constituency and that of Zamfara Central Senatorial Zone are still on compilation stages.