From Our Correspondents
Nasarawa State Governor and senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, has been declared senator-elect of Nasarawa South senatorial district.
According to the Returning Officer, Professor Mohammed Isa Kida, Al-Makura garnered 113,156 votes to thrash his closest rival and incumbent, Senator Suleiman Adokwe, of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), who polled 104,595 votes.
In Nasarawa West, a former governor of the state and incumbent senator representing the district, Abdullahi Adamu polled 115,298 votes to secure his third term in the chamber, on the platform of the APC.
Former governor of Sokoto State and the APC candidate representing Sokoto North, Alhaji Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, has won the election.
A second term senator, Wamkko won five, out of 8 local governments which constitute the senatorial District. He defeated his PDP opponent, senator Ahmed Muhammadu Maccido.
In Zamfara, Governor Abdul’Aziz Yari Abubakar, of the APC has been declared winner of the Zamfara West senatorial district election.
Announcing the results at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) zonal office in Tatala-Mafara yesterday evening, the Returning Officer, Prof. Lawal Mayanchi, said Yari scored 153,626 votes, to defeat his closest rival, Alhaji Lawal Hassan, of the PDP, who scored 69,293 votes.
With this victory, Yari will replace the incumbent, Ahmad Sani Yarima, the first civilian governor and three term senator of the district.
In Niger State, Senate spokesman, Ibrahim Aliyu Sabi, also returned to the chamber as APC swept National Assembly polls in the state.
It was a repeat of 2015 elections as the All Progressive Congress (APC) swept all the National Assembly elections in the state in a landslide victory.
Out of the six House of Representatives results so far announced, the APC carted away all the seats, while the results of five were still awaited at the time of filing this report.
Also, the APC won all the senate seats in the state with two incumbent senators, Ibrahim Aliyu Sabi, senate spokesman and senator Mohammed Binma re-elected for second terms.
Meanwhile, management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and the Director General, Major General Suleiman Zakari Kazaure, have appealed to the Independent National Electoral commission (INEC) to settle all outstanding training allowances and other entitlements of the corps members who participated in last weekend’s presidential and National Assembly elections.
The management equally expressed happiness at the conduct of the corps members and urged INEC and security agencies “to continue to evolve strategies for the protection of all corps members throughout the election period and thereafter.
“…Management calls on INEC to, as a matter of urgency, settle all outstanding training allowances and other entitlements of the corps members who participated in the conduct of the presidential and National Assembly elections, and, to avoid delay in the settlement of their allowances for the next phase of the elections.