{"id":175519,"date":"2025-08-22T10:19:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/apc-defeats-pdp-in-zamfara-bye-election"},"modified":"2025-08-22T11:19:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T10:19:38","slug":"apc-defeats-pdp-in-zamfara-bye-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-defeats-pdp-in-zamfara-bye-election","title":{"rendered":"APC defeats PDP in Zamfara bye-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Kamilu Sa\u2019idu Wanban Kasuwar Daji, as the winner of the supplementary election for Kaura Namoda South State Constituency in Zamfara State.<\/p>\n<p>The Returning Officer, Professor Lawal Sa\u2019ad of the Federal University Gusau, announced the result, stating that the APC candidate polled 8,182 votes to defeat his closest rival from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who scored 5,543 votes.<\/p>\n<p>He said Kamilu Sa\u2019idu, having satisfied the requirements of the law and scored the highest number of votes, was duly declared winner and returned elected.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Kamilu Sa\u2019idu Wanban Kasuwar Daji, as the winner of the supplementary election for Kaura Namoda South State Constituency in Zamfara State. The Returning Officer, Professor Lawal Sa\u2019ad of the Federal University Gusau, announced the result, stating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":175518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,254,65,150],"class_list":["post-175519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp","tag-zamfara"],"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 defeats PDP in Zamfara bye-election - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, K ...\" \/>\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\/apc-defeats-pdp-in-zamfara-bye-election\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"APC defeats PDP in Zamfara bye-election\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, K ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-defeats-pdp-in-zamfara-bye-election\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-22T09:19:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-22T10:19:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755845527.648067.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\/apc-defeats-pdp-in-zamfara-bye-election#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-defeats-pdp-in-zamfara-bye-election\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"APC defeats PDP in Zamfara bye-election\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-22T09:19:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-22T10:19:38+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-defeats-pdp-in-zamfara-bye-election\"},\"wordCount\":118,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-defeats-pdp-in-zamfara-bye-election#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1755845527.648067.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP\",\"Zamfara\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-defeats-pdp-in-zamfara-bye-election#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-defeats-pdp-in-zamfara-bye-election\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-defeats-pdp-in-zamfara-bye-election\",\"name\":\"APC defeats PDP in Zamfara bye-election - 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