The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has removed the name of the embattled Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Ado Doguwa, from the list of Reps-elect.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the electoral body had declared Dogowa of All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the February 25 election for Doguwa/Tudun Wada Federal Constituency of Kano State.
The Returning Officer, Prof. Ibrahim Yakasai, announced the result on February 26 at the Tudun Wada INEC office.
Yakasai said that Doguwa scored 39,732 votes to defeat his closest rival, Salisu Abdullahi of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), who polled 34,798 votes. At the time, there were reports that Prof. Yakasai made the declaration under duress.
However, in the newly-released list of members-elect, Doguwa’s name was conspicuously missing.
This newspaper reports that following election violence recorded in the constituency after the February 25 election, the police in Kano arrested and charged Doguwa, alongside others, for criminal conspiracy, and culpable homicide.
Doguwa was thereafter taken before a magistrate’s court and was subsequently remanded in prison.
But a Federal High Court in Kano on Monday released him on a N500 million bail, but barred him from his constituency during the coming governorship and state assembly elections.
