Nigeria, Feb. 22 -- Daniel Nuhu of the All Progressives Congress has won the Kwali Area Council chairmanship election with 17,032 votes.

Mr Nuhu secured victory across a majority of the wards to defeat Haruna Pai of the Peoples Democratic Party, who polled 8,575 votes to come second in the election.

The results were declared by the INEC presiding officer at Kwali's final collation centre on Sunday morning.

PREMIUM TIMES reports that elections were held in all ten wards of Kwali on Saturday.

The win in Kwali means APC has now won in three of the four area councils whose results have been announced. Apart from Kwali, APC also won in AMAC and Bwari area councils, while the PDP won in Gwagwalada.

More details later.

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