The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has won the presidential election in Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State with 33,647 votes, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has reported.
The Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) Presidential Election Returning Officer in the LGA,
Prof. Nafiu Abdu, who announced the result, said that President Muhammad
Buhari of the All Progressives Party (APC) got 6,907 votes.
Abdu
said that there were 89,701 registered voters in the 10 registration
areas in the LGA, adding that accredited voters were 43,979 with a total
valid votes of 41,550.
Similarly, Mr Gideon Gwani of the PDP has
polled 21,187 votes to win the Kaura Federal Constituency election in
Kaduna State for the fifth time.
Announcing the result in Kaura on
Sunday, Dr Luka Maude, the INEC National Assembly Election Collation
Officer in the local government, said that Gwani was trailed by Mr
Sunday Aso of the APC with 6,854 votes.
Mr Simon Na’allah of the
Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) got 6,053 votes, while Afang Tanda of the
Social Democratic Party (SDP) polled 2,867 followed by Zamani Joseph of
the UPN with 2,582 votes, according to the collation officer.
“Mr Gideon Gwani of the PDP, having scored two-thirds and majority of the votes, is hereby returned as elected,” Maude said.
The
PDP senatorial candidate also won in the constituency with 29,356
votes, while APC got 9,071 votes, SDP 1,102 and PRP 1,389.
(NAN)
Source:- Thisdaylive
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