Kaduna LG Polls: PDP defeats APC, wins Unguwar Sarki polling unit

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) defeated the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) at the polling unit where Governor Nasir El-Rufai cast his ballot in the Kaduna Local Government elections.

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, won the councillorship election of Unguwar Sarki,  which is the ward of Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai.

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Announcing the results on Saturday, the returning officer, Mohammed Usman, said PDP candidate, Abdulhalim Na’ibi, polled 1,405 votes against the All Progressives Congress, APC candidate Aliyu Faruk, who scored 804 votes.

“That Abdulhalim Usman Na’ibi of PDP Unguwar Sarki Ward having satisfied the requirements of the law and scored the highest number of votes is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” the returning officer said.

Moments after he cast his ballot, the governor had said: “We are not going to behave like other parties or other state governments of the ruling party. We will allow the people of Kaduna State to elect who they want.

“We do not have to win everywhere, though we have worked for the people of Kaduna State, they have seen our footprint, the govt and the local government everywhere, they have seen and we are confident that all reasonably minded people will vote for our party, our candidate because they know we are committed to the welfare of the people.

“We don’t believe in cheating, we don’t believe in rigging election but also we don’t believe that other people should cheat us. And that is why we encouraged SIECOM to come up with a very improved system and I am impressed with the whole thing”.

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