A current member of the House of Representatives, Suleiman Gummi, one of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members that resisted to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC) with Governor Bello Mattawale, but stayed back in the PDP with former Deputy Governor Mahdi Gusau, on Saturday won re-election to the National Assembly on the PDP platform.
Suleiman Gummi was declared winner of the supplementary election in Gummi- Bukkuyum Federal Constituency, Zamfara State, North-West Nigeria with 35,664 votes, defeating the APC candidate, Ahmad Gummi, who had 35, 058 votes.
The collation officer of the 2023 Gummi- Bukkuyum supplementary elections Dr. Lawal Saad, accordingly, declared Suleiman the winner having scored the highest number of votes and satisfied the requirements of the law.