Senator Abdulaziz Nyako, the son of a strong All Progressives Party (APC) chieftain, Murtala Nyako, has emerged the governorship candidate for the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Adamawa state.
The senator representing Adamawa Central Zone was elected unopposed at the primary election conducted on Monday in Yola.
He scored 2,235 votes out of 2,274 votes cast by delegates from all the 226 wards in the 21 local government areas in the state while 33 votes were declared invalid.
Announcing the results, the chairman of the party’s primaries committee, Saidu Abdullahi, described the election as peaceful, free and fair, saying the conduct reflected the strength of internal democracy.
In his acceptance speech, Abdulaziz promised to turn around infrastructure and governance in the state, saying the people of Adamawa had been neglected.
“We would address insecurity, drugs, farmer-herders crisis, to rid the state free from criminality. We are the first political party to conduct primaries, and would emerge victorious in 2019 elections,” he added.
