{"id":22624,"date":"2020-03-15T19:01:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T19:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=22624"},"modified":"2020-03-15T19:01:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T19:01:20","slug":"pdp-wins-kebbe-constituency-by-election-in-sokoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-wins-kebbe-constituency-by-election-in-sokoto","title":{"rendered":"PDP wins Kebbe constituency by-election in Sokoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state\u2019s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Head of Voter Education and Public Affairs, Mr Muhammad Musa said this while speaking with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Sokoto.<\/p>\n<p>Musa said that seven candidates participated in the March 14, by-election.<\/p>\n<p>He said Adamu scored 15, 663 votes, while Mr Abubakar Umaru of All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 254 votes to emerge second.<\/p>\n<p>He said Mr Adamu Musa of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) scored 63 votes, while Mr Shehu Magaji of APP scored 15 votes.NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state\u2019s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Head of Voter Education and Public Affairs, Mr Muhammad Musa said this while speaking with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Sokoto. Musa said that seven candidates participated in the March 14, by-election. He said Adamu scored 15, 663 votes, while Mr Abubakar Umaru of All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":18956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,131],"class_list":["post-22624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-apga"],"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>PDP wins Kebbe constituency by-election in Sokoto - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The state\u2019s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Head of Voter Education and Public Affairs, Mr Muhammad Musa said this while\" \/>\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\/all-news\/pdp-wins-kebbe-constituency-by-election-in-sokoto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP wins Kebbe constituency by-election in Sokoto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The state\u2019s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Head of Voter Education and Public Affairs, Mr Muhammad Musa said this while\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-wins-kebbe-constituency-by-election-in-sokoto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-15T19:01:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/PDP-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"840\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-wins-kebbe-constituency-by-election-in-sokoto#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-wins-kebbe-constituency-by-election-in-sokoto\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"PDP wins Kebbe constituency by-election in Sokoto\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-15T19:01:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-wins-kebbe-constituency-by-election-in-sokoto\"},\"wordCount\":90,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-wins-kebbe-constituency-by-election-in-sokoto#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/PDP-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"APGA\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-wins-kebbe-constituency-by-election-in-sokoto#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-wins-kebbe-constituency-by-election-in-sokoto\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-wins-kebbe-constituency-by-election-in-sokoto\",\"name\":\"PDP wins Kebbe constituency by-election in Sokoto - 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