The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Alhasan Doguwa, has been re-elected to represent the Doguwa/Tudunwada Federal Constituency of Kano. His victory comes weeks after he was charged with murder by the police.
The police in Kano charged Mr Doguwa with murder for allegedly killing three people during the 25 February election.
The lawmaker was involved in a violent confrontation between members of the New Nigeria People Party (NNPP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) that led to the killing of three people and the burning of a campaign office of the opposition party in the Tudun Wada Local Government Area of Kano.
The police said the lawmaker was arrested and charged alongside other accomplices.
“The lawmaker was charged with criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide, causing grievous hurt, and mischief by fire, inciting disturbance,” the police spokesperson Abdullahi Kiyawa, said.
His election was later declared inconclusive.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday declared him as the winner of the supplementary election for the Tudun-Wada,/Doguwa constituency.
Mr Doguwa polled 41,573 to defeat his major challenger, Yushau Salisu of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), who polled 34,831 votes.
Mr Doguwa of the APC, representing the Doguwa/Tudun Wada federal constituency of Kano, is standing trial on a six-count charge of conspiracy, culpable homicide, causing grievous hurt, arson, inciting public disturbance, and unlawful possession of firearms.
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