The two sitting lawmakers from Jigawa, Messrs Danmaliki and Madawaki, have secured their return tickets for a second term as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) opted for a consensus approach.

An appeals court has frozen 25 bank accounts of an unnamed incumbent legislator involved in an anomalous flood control probe. Separately, Martin Romualdez has requested the Ombudsman to recuse from his case, alleging bias.