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Gubernatorial: Buhari wins unit for APC

  • PublishedMarch 10, 2019

President Muhammadu Buhari won his unit for the All Progressives Congress in the governorship election in Katsina State.

Buhari’s Unit 003 is in Sarkin Yara A Ward in Daura Local Government Area of the State.

The APC, whose candidate is Governor Aminu Masari, polled 370 votes.

He defeated his closest rival, Senator Yakubu Lado-Danmarke of the Peoples Democratic Party, who scored 42 votes in scores tabulated by the Presiding Officer, Mr Aliyu Abdullahi.

The APC also defeated the PDP in the House of Assembly election in the unit by scoring 368 votes.

The PDP followed with 40 votes; Accord, 3 and NRM, 1.

The unit has 898 registered voters.

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