Ex-banker wins Zamfara PDP governorship primary rerun election

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Zamfara State, on Friday declared Alhaji Dauda Lawal Dare winner of the governorship primary election rerun.  

The governorship primary poll rerun was conducted after a Federal High Court last Friday nullified the primary election that produced Dare as the party’s flag-bearer for the forthcoming general elections.  

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In the convention, 431 delegates from 147 wards across the 14 local government areas of the state converged on Gusau, the state capital, to elect the governorship candidate for the party in the state.  

A large number of heavily armed security operatives were deployed to the headquarters of the party in Gusau, the venue of the convention.  

The chairman of the election committee, Senator Hassan Felix Hyat, announced wal Dare the winner of the election after he polled 422 votes, defeating his opponents, Alhaji Ibrahim Shehu Gusau and Hafiz Nahuche, who scored one vote each.  

An aspirant, Alhaji Wadatau Madawaki, had earlier stepped down for Dare and promised to support the latter’s candidature to wrest power from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.

The chairman of the party in the state, Dr Ahmad Sani Kaura, expressed gratitude to the delegates who came from far and near to produce the party’s candidate.