Abdulaziz Yar’adua who is the younger brother of late President Umaru Yar’adua, also a retired lieutenant colonel in the Nigerian Army has been declared winner of the Katsina Central Senatorial District election.
The returning officer for the election, Professor Aminu Dalhatu Kankia, while announcing the result in Katsina, explained that Yar’Adua scored a total of 153,512 votes to defeat his closest rival, Aminu Surajo Makera of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 152,140 votes.
Gambo Abubakar of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) received 16,005, while Aminu Gide of Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) got 781 votes.
Professor Kankia further announced that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) would no longer declare any election inconclusive, stating that places where elections did not hold as a result of thuggery, violence or banditry would be marked zero.
