The outgoing Deputy Governor of Kaduna State, Barnabas Bantex, on Tuesday, described Governor Nasir El-Rufai as a man of empathy who has taken the state to greater heights.
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INEC on Sunday in Kafanchan said Senator Danjuma La’ah of the PDP has beaten APC’s Barnabas Bantex, the Kaduna state Deputy Governor, in Kaura, the latter’s Local Government Area.
Barnabas Bantex, Kaduna State Deputy Governor, contesting for Kaduna South Senatorial District seat on the platform of the All Progressive Congress, has lost his Registration Area, Manchok, to the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Announcing the results, the Returning Officer, Gabriel Iduseri, declared Bantex the winner.
He said that the natives and Fulanis had lived peacefully in the area for centuries, as such recent crisis should not be used to severe the bond that existed between them for a long time
He attributed the security challenge to poverty and idleness, and said the state government was doing everything possible to create job opportunities to absorb idling youths to stem the menace