PDP Wins Dogara’s Council In Bauchi Senate Bye-Election

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara may still be physically a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), while his spirit is already in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the party’s candidate, Ladan Salihu won Dogara’s Bogoro Local Government in the Bauchi South senatorial bye-election, last Saturday.
Salihu, a former broadcaster, got 6,646 votes as against the 3,992 votes scored by the APC candidate, Lawal Yahaya Gumau, according to the official result declared this morning in Bauchi.
Total valid votes cast in the local council were 15,872.
Collation of the bye-election result was slowed down by the heavy rain that fell Saturday evening.
Apart from Salihu and Gumau, six other candidates took part in the election, including a former governor of the state, Isa Yuguda, who ran on the platform of Green Party of Nigeria.
Others are Haruna Ayuba (African Democratic Congress), Aminu Tukur (Action Peoples Party), Usman Hassan (Kowa Party), the only woman in the race Maryam Bargel (Social Democratic Party), Husseini Umar (New Nigeria Peoples Party) and Usman Chaledi (People for Democratic Change).
Activities at the collation centre in Bauchi resumed today, with results from Dass, Toro and Kirfi local councils also announced.
In Dass local government, the APC candidate won 7,432 votes, while PDP got 4,028.