The All Progressives Congress (APC) won at the Polling Unit 002 in Babura Kofar Arewa Primary School, Jigawa State, where the Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar voted during Garki-Babura federal constituency by-election on Saturday.
The minister, who is an APC chieftain and immediate past governor of the state, cast his vote amidst tight security and left without addressing journalists.
While APC won with 188 votes, PDP polled 164 votes.
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An earlier result had shown that APC lost at Polling Unit 001 located in the same primary school and wrongly tagged as the polling booth where the minister cast his vote.
The by-election across the constituency was held under adequate security presence.
Personnel of the Nigeria Police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) and others, were seen maintaining law and order at various polling units and other strategic locations at Babura and Garki LGAs.
At Primary Yamma (005), the Minister of State For Education, Mrs. Suwaiba Ahmad, commended the peaceful conduct of the election. Ahmad also expressed optimism that the APC would emerge victorious at the end of the exercise.
However, some residents went about their normal businesses and there were commercial activities in some areas of the constituency. The election also recorded relatively high turnout in most of the polling units.