Zamfara North: Kaura secures APC ticket

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Zamfara State, Yahaya Tijjani Kaura, has secured the celebration’s ticket for Zamfara North forward of the National Assembly election scheduled to carry concurrently with the presidential election subsequent January.

In a main election held lately in Gusau, Yahaya Tijjani Kaura polled 16,758 votes to defeat his foremost rival, Sahabi Yari Alhaji, who scored 1,465 votes. Another aspirant, Abdullahi Shinkafi, secured 1,447 votes.

The improvement follows a contemporary main election performed after the Court of Appeal sitting in Sokoto final month nullified the APC main election for Zamfara North Senatorial District over gross non-compliance with the celebration’s tips and the Electoral Act.

Justice Tunde Oyebamiji Awotoye, who delivered the judgment, upheld the sooner determination of the Federal High Court in Gusau, which had nullified the first election in August 2026.

The court docket additional held that the respondent, Hon. Abdullahi Shinkafi, had proved his case past cheap doubt. It additionally expressed sturdy reservations about how a senatorial district with 26,000 registered celebration members may return 70,000 votes for an aspirant.

Alhaji Sani Abdullahi, the Returning Officer of the APC Senatorial Primary Election Committee, who declared Kaura the winner and licensed the outcomes, famous that Kaura had happy the necessities of the APC Constitution and Guidelines and secured the very best variety of votes.

The declaration formally returned Kaura because the APC’s senatorial candidate for Zamfara North Senatorial District.

Kaura’s victory, with a commanding margin of 15,293 votes over the second-placed aspirant, represents a decisive consequence within the rerun contest.