House Of Reps Member, Umar Bago, Emerges Niger APC Governorship Flagbearer
A member House of Representatives, representing Chanchaga Federal Constituency of Niger State on the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Hon. Mohammed Umar Bago has won the governorship primaries of the party in the state.
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Bago, a three times member of the House defeats his closest rival, Alhaji Mohammed Idris Malagi who polled 386 votes with 154 votes, while a former Minister of Sports, Alhaji Mohammed Sani Ndanusa came third with 84 votes as the incumbent state’s Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ahmed Mohammed Ketso who had17 votes and the remaining six governorship aspirants had four, three, one and zero votes respectively.
The Chief retiring officer, Bar. Nasiru Ibrahim, a former Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Kebbi State, announced that about 1, 049 delegates were accredited to participate in the election which was held at the Legbo Kutigi International Conference Centre, opposite the Government House, Minna.
The returning officer who doubled as the Chairman of APC’s governorship primaries in Niger State, while announcing the results, said Honourable Mohammed Umar Bago has the highest votes in the primary held in Minna, Niger State, therefore, “I, Bar. Nasiru Ibrahim as the chairman Electoral committee, declare Honourable Mohammed Bago as the winner of the elections.”
Consequently, valid votes were put at 571 votes while void votes were counted as 11 votes.
Meanwhile, in his acceptance speech, the winner, Hon. Mohammed Umar Bago while appreciating God for the success of the election, called on the party supporters to suspend the celebration of his victory at the party’s primary election, saying “we are not yet there, we still have work ahead to do. It is my prayer that APC forms the next government in the state.”
The gubernatorial flagbearer of APC in the next year’s governorship election in the state, Hon. Mohammed Umar Bago, thanked the state governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello for providing a level playing field for all the aspirants while calling on other aspirants and their campaign committees to kindly sheath their swords for the good of the party and the entire generations of Nigerlites in the forthcoming elections.
