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Kaduna:PDP's Yakowa wins guber polls
Newsdiaryonline Frid April 29,2011
Governor Patrick Yakowa has won the
historic 2011 gubernatorial election in Kaduna state.He is the
first politician from the minority southern part of Kaduna to
ever be democratically elected as governor in the state.Haruna
Saeed ,the CPC candidate came second.
The incumbent governor according to the official tally won
the election in 12 of the 23 local government councils in the
state but he obtained obtaining the mandatory 25 percent
in 19 out of the 23 local government. The CPC candidate
won the election in 11 local government but scored
25 percent of the total votes cast in 14 local government
areas of the state.
Area Yakowa won include Chikun, Giwa, Jaba, Jema’a, Kagarko,
Kajuru, Kaura, Kauru, Kudan, Sanga, Zangon Kataf and
Kachia local government areas while the CPC candidate,
Haruna Saeed won in Birnin Gwari, Igabi, Kaduna North, Kaduna
South, Lere, Makarfi, Sabon Gari, Soba, Ikara, Zaria and
Kubau local government areas.
Vice Chancellor of
Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Prof. Abdullahi Mustapha
and the returning officer for the governorship election in the
state who announced the result said that the governor
polled 1,339,487 votes to defeat his
closest rival (Saeed
CPC) , who polled 1,114,987 votes.
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