Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko yesterday picked the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket to contest for Sokoto North Senatorial seat next year.
Announcing the result, Chairman of the Electoral Panel, Alhaji Nasiru Danladi Bako said the governor scored 2,372 votes to emerge winner of the primaries held at the Trade Fair Complex in Sokoto.
In his speech, Governor Wamakko assured the zone of a responsive and vibrant representation in the Senate if elected in 2015.
He thanked the delegates and the party members for confidence reposed in him.
The two candidates elected in other senatorial zones on the party’s platform included Ibrahim Abdullahi Danbaba Damboa (Sokoto West) and Alhaji Ibrahim Gobir (Sokoto East) senatorial districts respectively.
Also on Monday, a former member of the House of Representatives, Otunba Dino Melaye, clinched the ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to contest the Kogi West Senatorial District.
Chairman, APC Primary Election Committee in Kogi State, Engr. Ebitei Francis, alongside the Secretary, Hon. Bala Ajeje, announced that Melaye scored 2,077 of the votes to defeat his rival, Bidemi Adeyemi, who received 326 votes.
The victory means he will slug it out with the incumbent, former National President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Smart Adeyemi of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Adeyemi had defeated the candidate backed by the duo of Tunde Ogbeha and Gen. David Jemibewon (Rtd).
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