The current Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has emerged as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, in just concluded primary election on Thursday.
He surveyed 3,224 votes to emerge as the champion in an essential challenged by 10 competitors.
The senator was trailed by Dr Babatunde Irukera who surveyed 109 and Hassan Baiwa who surveyed 44
Different outcomes as declared by the returning official are Yahaya Audu (10 votes),
Sani Lulu Abdulahi, (7 votes), Bashir Gegu (4 votes), Blessing Ekele (0) Iyoma Hadiza (0), Yakuba Muhammed (0) and Dalami Muhammed (0).
Declaring the outcome after the end of surveys at 6pm, the Governor of Jigawa State, Badaru Abubakar, who was the returning official, encouraged representatives to acknowledge the aftereffect of the race in compliance with common decency.
He put the absolute number of representatives at 3,500.
In any case, Irukera said the race was loaded with inconsistencies, including that the activity missed the mark regarding adequate standards.
Another wannabe, Bewa arranged an exit from the Confluence Stadium, Lokoja setting of the essential, claiming that the essential had been undermined.
Prior, the excursion judge sitting at a Kogi State High Court, Lokoja, Justice Abdul Awulu, declined the ex parte application documented by Mustapha Audu to stop the governorship essential of the APC.
Audu had documented an ex parte application under the steady gaze of the court and looked for among others, an interval request limiting the APC and others from leading the Kogi State’s governorship essential.
Managing on the issue, Justice Awulu, stated, “The issue to determine is whether a court can control by a request for directive the holding of an essential race by an ideological group. This is my view and I so hold that the holding or leading essential by an ideological group can’t be halted by a request for order.”
