The lawmakers are Senator Dauda Jika representing Bauchi Central and elected on the platform of the APC; and Senator Ezenwa Francis Onyewuchi representing Imo East Senatorial District, who was elected on the platform of the PDP.
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The lawmakers are Senators Ahmad Babba Kaita (Katsina North), Lawal Yahaya Gumau (Bauchi South), and Francis Alimikhena (Edo North).
This is as INEC’s National Commissioner for Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye says the commission is unaware of any faction in the party.
This was disclosed in a statement issued by the Director of MURIC, Professor Ishaq Akintola, on Friday.
Shekarau won the party’s ticket unopposed at the primaries in Gezawa, headquarters of Gezawa Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano state.
The man of God had mentioned at different times some politicians who should not bother contesting or withdraw from the race because he doesn’t see them becoming the next president of the country.
The former two-term Kano State Governor Shekarau said this at a news conference in Kano on Thursday.
A member of the Spiritual Committee of the party, Rev. Emma Agubanze, made the description Wednesday, saying that the 2023 general elections would be a smooth sail to victory for Kwankwaso and the party.
The senator, who was elected to the upper chamber of the National Assembly on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) dumped the party following a deep crisis.
Kwankwaso, former Minister of Defence, at a news conference in Abuja on Tuesday, said he had also obtained the membership card of the NNPP.
The National Chairman of the party’s Caretaker Committee, Retired Air Vice Marshal John Ifeimeje, disclosed this on Monday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the PDP candidate scored 19,302 votes to defeat Murtala Usman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who polled 13,240 votes out of the 34,675 total votes cast in the election.
Prof. Iyinola Oni, INEC Local Government Collation Officer for the by-election for Kosofe Constituency 2, declared the result at the collation centre in Agidi Comprehensive School, Agbonyi-Ketu at 5:35am on Sunday.
The Lagos State Chairman of the party, Malam Shakirudeen Olofin, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Lagos.
The party said in Lagos that the recent clashes in Benue called for reflection on the way forward and not blames game and media war.
NAN recalls that the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, had in a broadcast on November 22, 2013, said that the commission would conduct a supplementary election on November 30 in the local governments where there were lapses