Mohammed Munirat Nasir, Gusau

Zamfara State governor Alhaji Abdul’Aziz Yari Abubakar and the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been declared the winner of Saturday’s Senatorial election for the Zamfara West Senatorial zone.

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Announcing the results at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) zonal office in Tatala-Mafara this evening, the Returning Officer, Prof. Lawal Mayanchi, said Yari of the APC 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 Senator Ahmad Sani Yarima, the first civilian governor and three term Senator of the zone.