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BREAKING: House of Assembly Speaker, Deputy lose to PDP candidates

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The Speaker of Zamfara State House of Assembly, Nasiru Muazu Magarya and his deputy, Musa Bawa Musa Yankuzo, have been defeated in the March 18 election by the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

TrackNews reports that the Returning Officer (RO) for the Zurmi West Constituency election, Ismail Mudassir Moriki, on Monday declared Bilyaminu Ismail of the PDP the winner of the state house of assembly election in the Speaker’s constituency.

Ismail garnered11,213 votes to defeat the Speaker who scored 9,530 votes.

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In a similar vein, the Deputy Speaker of the state assembly, Yankuzo, lost his re-election bid to the PDP’s Bello Muhammad Mazawaje, who polled 21,197 votes ahead of Yankuzo’s 13, 820 votes. Both losers are chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

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