BY INUSA NDAHI, MAIDUGURI
Former Borno State Commissioner of Health Dr. Haruna Mshelia and his counterpart from Local Government and Emirate Affairs, Hon. Usman Zannah have won the House of Representatives seats in their respective Constituencies in the free and fair elections held last Saturday across the state.
Dr. Mshelia who contested for the House of Representatives, Askira – Uba /Hawul Federal Constituency on the platform of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) has won with a wide margin having defeated his opponent from the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Emmanual Bassi.
Declaring the final results on Monday, Dr. Mshelia of the APC scored 51,763, while PDP got 30,560, with a difference of 21,203.
Likewise, Hon. Usman Zanah, also of the APC has emerged as the winner of Kaga, Magumeri and Gubio federal constituency having polled 30,683 against the PDP’s Bilal Ali’s 7,722 in Kaga, Magumeri and Gubio votes to win the election.
Hon. Usman Zanah won in almost all of the 13 wards of Magumeri, 15 wards of Kaga and 10 wards of the Gubio federal constituency while the PDP candidate won in three wards.
Declaring the winner, the INEC Returning Officer, Associate Professor Musa Abdullahi said that “the APC candidate Usman Zanah, having satisfy the requirement of the law and scored the highest number of votes, is here by declared the winner”.
Also the former Chairman of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Engineer Satomi Ahmed of the who contested JERE federal constituency has declared winner.
SATOMI, who also contested on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) defeated HON BUKAR SHUWA of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Announcing the results, the returning officer, DR YUSUF NGOSHE declared Satomi the winner with 82,370 while his closest contestant, Hon. Bukar Shuwa of the PDP had 8911.