The All Progressives Congress candidate, Mr. Lawan Gumau, has won the Bauchi South Senatorial District bye-election, held on Saturday.
Announcing the result in Bauchi on Sunday, the Returning Officer, Prof. Ahmed Sarkin-Pagam, said Gumau scored 119,489 votes to defeat eight other contestants, among them, the immediate past governor of the state, Mr. Isa Yuguda of the Green Party of Nigeria, who polled 33,079 votes.
He said other candidates were Haruna Ayuba of ADC who garnered 1,754 votes; Aminu Tukur of APP who scored 11,717 votes; Usman Hassan of KP with 240 votes; and Huseini Umar of NNPP who scored 22,896 votes.
The Returning Officer gave the scores of the remaining candidates as Usman Chaledi of PDC, 1,203 votes; Ladan Salihu of PDP, 50,256 votes, and Mrs. Maryam Begel of SDP, 3,800 votes.
He said a total of 256,763 votes were cast, out of which 245,652 were valid and 11,111 invalids.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the bye-election was conducted to elect a representative for Bauchi-South Senatorial District, sequel to the death of Senator Ali Wakili on March 17.
With the outcome of the bye-election, APC in Bauchi now has only one senator because the other two, Isa Misau and Nazif Gamawa, formerly of the APC, have defected to the PDP.
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NAN
The Bauchi state Deputy Governor, Nuhu Gidado, has resigned his appointment. Gidado tendered his resignation letter Governor Mohammed Abubakar on Thursday.
In the letter, Gidado said he had lost interest in being the Deputy Governor. He said though he wished to complete his tenure, but that he had to resign.
Samaila Sanusi, the Special Adviser to Bauchi State Governor on Investment has resigned. The aide to the governor said he had to resign because the working environment became unfriendly.
Sanusi announced his resignation in Bauchi while briefing newsmen. He she he had submitted his letter to the governor, through the office of Secretary to State Government.
“I planned to resign since the day you challenged us to continue being in service or quit at the beginning of the executive council meeting, held on Wednesday, February 1, 2017.
After several consultations with my supporters, I felt it was time for me to go.
As you are aware, our government came into being through popular votes of the overwhelming majority of the good people of Bauchi State.
There is very high expectation of dividends of democracy from us by the electorate. This calls for deployment of wealth of knowledge and professional experience into play towards meeting the legitimate yearnings and aspiration of our people,’’ he stated in his letter.
He stated that efforts to hold talk with governor Mohammed Abubakar proved abortive. He however thanked the governor for the opportunity he gave to him to serve.
Samaila Sanusi was appointed on February 15, 2016
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