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The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna State has won all the three by-elections in Chikun/Kajuru Federal Constituency, Zaria Kewaye and Basawa state constituencies which held on Saturday.

In Chikun/Kajuru Federal Constituency, Felix Bagudu of the APC was declared winner by Prof. Abubakar Mohammed Jumare, the returning officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), who announced the results on Sunday.

Jumare said the APC candidate scored 34,580 votes to defeat Esther Ashivelli Dawaki of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who got 11,491 votes.

In Zaria Kewaye state constituency, the INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Balarabe Abdullahi, declared Haruna Ihamo, the APC candidate as winner, having polled 26,613 votes.

His closest challenger, Nuhu Sada Abdullahi of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), got  5,721 votes, while the PDP candidate, Mamuda Abdullahi Wappa, garnered 5,331 votes.

Similarly, in the Basawa  state constituency by-election, the Returning Officer, Prof. Nasiru Rabiu, announced that the APC also emerged victorious, scoring 10,926 votes to defeat the PDP candidate who secured 5,499 votes.

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