{"id":109515,"date":"2024-02-04T21:06:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T20:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/apcs-pogu-wins-chibok-bye-election-in-borno"},"modified":"2024-02-04T23:24:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T22:24:28","slug":"apcs-pogu-wins-chibok-bye-election-in-borno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apcs-pogu-wins-chibok-bye-election-in-borno","title":{"rendered":"APC\u2019s Pogu wins Chibok bye-election in Borno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Lawan Pogu, has been declared winner of the Saturday House of Assembly by-election for Chibok Constituency in Borno.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the result on Sunday, the Returning Officer, Prof. Baba Kyari-Waziri, said Pogu scored 9,101 votes to defeat his closest opponent of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Habila Bello, who got 2,117 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Other candidates are Abdullahi Gambo of African Democratic Congress, ADC, 69 votes; Hamid Zamzam of Action Democratic Party, ADP, 63 votes; and Maina Sheriff of Social Democratic Party, SDP, 12 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullahi Lawan of Allied People\u2019s Movement, APM, scored 48 votes; while Haruna Shettima of Action People\u2019s Party, APP, got 17 votes.<\/p>\n<p>The Chibok by-election took place following the death of the initial winner of the 2023 election, Nuhu Clerk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Lawan Pogu, has been declared winner of the Saturday House of Assembly by-election for Chibok Constituency in Borno. Announcing the result on Sunday, the Returning Officer, Prof. Baba Kyari-Waziri, said Pogu scored 9,101 votes to defeat his closest opponent of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":109514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[1570,2140,34,47,254,12641],"class_list":["post-109515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-apc","tag-borno","tag-nigeria","tag-pogu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>APC\u2019s Pogu wins Chibok bye-election in Borno - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Lawan Pogu, has been declared winner of the Saturday House of Assembly ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apcs-pogu-wins-chibok-bye-election-in-borno\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"APC\u2019s Pogu wins Chibok bye-election in Borno\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Lawan Pogu, has been declared winner of the Saturday House of Assembly ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apcs-pogu-wins-chibok-bye-election-in-borno\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-02-04T20:06:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-02-04T22:24:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/sm_1707069018.255138.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apcs-pogu-wins-chibok-bye-election-in-borno#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apcs-pogu-wins-chibok-bye-election-in-borno\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"APC\u2019s Pogu wins Chibok bye-election in Borno\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-04T20:06:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-04T22:24:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apcs-pogu-wins-chibok-bye-election-in-borno\"},\"wordCount\":142,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apcs-pogu-wins-chibok-bye-election-in-borno#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/sm_1707069018.255138.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"APC\",\"Borno\",\"Nigeria\",\"pogu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apcs-pogu-wins-chibok-bye-election-in-borno#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apcs-pogu-wins-chibok-bye-election-in-borno\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apcs-pogu-wins-chibok-bye-election-in-borno\",\"name\":\"APC\u2019s Pogu wins Chibok bye-election in Borno - 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