By-election: Opposition kicks in Kano, APC clears Rivers assembly seats

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The African Democratic Congress, New Nigeria Peoples Party, and Peoples Democratic Party on Saturday shunned the by-election for the Ungogo and Kano Municipal constituencies in Kano State.

This is as the candidates of the All Progressives Congress in Ahoada East Constituency 2 and Khana Constituency 2, Napoleon Ukalikpe, and Burabari Loloo, respectively, were declared winners of the House of Assembly by-election in Rivers State by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

According to the Kano opposition parties, irregularities, fears of violence, and procedural arrangements allegedly favouring the ruling APC forced them out of the polls.

The by-election was held to fill the two vacant seats following the deaths of Aminu Sa’ad Ungogo and Sarki Aliyu Daneji, both elected on the NNPP platform, who died on the same day in December 2025. Punch