The Returning Officer for Lavun local government state House of Assembly Elections, Professor Emmanuel Raymond, has declared Ndagi Babba of the APC as the winner of the Lavun constituency in the Niger State House of Assembly re-run election.
Professor Raymond stated that the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has met the requirement of the law with the highest votes, having scored 21,393 votes to defeat the incumbent candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 20,802 votes.
Declaring the result, the returning officer, Professor Emmanuel Raymond, explained that there were 121,134 registered voters, while 44,390 were accredited, 846 were rejected, and 44,310 actually cast their votes.
It could be recalled that in the 2023 general elections, Alhaji Yusuf Dabban who contested on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) won the election with over 18,000 votes with a margin of 1,580 votes.
It was gathered that the election had some irregularities that led to the cancellation of the election in 32 polling units with over 18,0000 registered voters.
The result indicated that the second runner-up, Ndagi Babba, scored over 17,000 votes but had challenged the victory in court.
The court therefore ordered INEC to conduct a rerun for the 32 polling units cancelled as a result of irregularities.
