The All Progressives Congress (APC) has emerged the winner of the Ghari/Tsanyawa supplementary election in Kano Northwest, Nigeria.
Announcing the result at about 6:10 a.m. on Sunday, the Returning Officer, Professor Muhammad Waziri of Bayero University, declared Garba Ya’u Gwarmai of the APC the winner with 31,472 votes.
He defeated the candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Yusuf Ali Maigado, who polled 27,931 votes.
The supplementary poll was held after the initial election in the constituency was declared inconclusive.