The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it will conduct rerun elections in four polling units in Zaki Federal constituency of Bauchi State.
This was disclosed by the INEC Head of Voter Education, Ahmed Waziri in Bauchi weekend.
The re-run will be conducted to determine the winner of the last election into Zaki federal constituency.
According to him, the PDP candidate was leading in the earlier collated results, but the total votes canceled in the affected polling units exceeded the margin between him and his closest rival of the APC which necessitated the conduct the rerun election as provided by law.
He informed that the date for the rerun election will soon be announced and made public.
It could be recalled that the official results presented by returning officers for the senatorial and House of representatives elections across the state saw the ruling APC securing all the three senatorial seats and eight out of the 12 House of Representatives seats.
Peoples Redemption Party, PRP secured two of Katagum and Bauchi local government federal constituencies while PDP gets only Dass, Tafawa Balewa and Bagoro federal constituency.
