PDP’s Bilbis scored 102, 866 votes to defeat Senator Marafa who polled 91,216 votes.
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Marafa, who represented Zamfara Central Senatorial District for eight years, spoke at a media parley in Abuja on Sunday
The action comes just days after Buni announced the dissolution of the State Executive Committee of the party.
The State Publicity Secretary of the faction, Bello Bakyasuwa, stated this at a news conference in Gusau on Monday.
Ganduje said this on Saturday in Sokoto
The prayer was held on Saturday
The appeal was filed by Senator Kabiru Marafa, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), and 129 others through his Counsel, Mike Ozheokome
The Senator representing Zamfara Central at the National Assembly, Senator Kabiru Marafa, has lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for allowing justice to prevail in the crisis rocking the state chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress.
The motion for the request for Police to furnish the Senate with Service number of policemen deployed for the governorship election was sponsored by Senator Dino Melaye.
Marafa’s delegates, alongside thousands of his supporters from Zamfara State, besieged the venue of the convention at Eagle Square, Abuja
Apart from the controversial nominee, others confirmed were Festus Okoye (South East) , Attahiru Garba Madani (Niger), Elder Monday Udo Tom ( Akwa Ibom).
Marafa who represents Zamfara Central said at the flag-off of the donation at Yandoton Daji that the intervention was to lessen the suffering of those who lost their parents and husbands to the attack.
Though the Senate is on break, the committee was mandated to conduct the public hearing because of the urgency of the matter
Baru had last week said the NNPC was paying N26 on a litre of fuel to bridge the gap in the difference between the N145 approved as pump price and the landing cost of N171
In a leaked memo, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, had alleged lack of due process in the award of contracts valued at over $25 billion by the NNPC
The Chairman of the committee, Senator Kabiru Marafa, stated this in a news briefing shortly after an investigative hearing on the matter on Tuesday in Abuja.
Although the NNPC had claimed that there is no more subsidy payment on fuel imported into Nigeria, the Senate says its findings show otherwise
The revelation came through a motion sponsored by Senator Kabiru Marafa, who enumerated unapproved spending of the Executive Secretary of the agency
The party said its attention was drawn to a statement credited to Senator Kabiru Marafa in which he advised Ekweremadu to defect to the APC in order to retain his position
Marafa told the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja that it was the prerogative of the political party to appoint or reject any principal officer as contained in Senate’s Standing Rules