Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu of Niger state of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suffered defeat in the Senatorial election for Niger East as the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Barrister David Umaru winning with wide margin.
In the results announced at the senatorial election collation centre at College of education Minna yesterday, by the Returning Officer professor Ali Audu Jigam the APC scored 49519 votes while PDP got 17,209 votes.
The APC candidate got 18,887 votes in Gurara local government to defeat the PDP candidate who scored 6,520 while in Shiroro local government APC polled 27,191 votes as against 7519 votes for PDP.
In Tafa local government, the collating officer, Dr. Emmanuel Daniya said that the governor was defeated by the APC with 17,596 votes to 8,151 votes scored by PDP.
In Bosso local government of the state, it was a land slide victory for the APC candidate with 36,250 voters over PDP that got 7060 votes. Barrister David Umaru also extended his winning streak to Munya local government from where he polled 13666 votes over PDP with 6,635 votes of the governor.
Moreso, the results from these six local governments out of nine that made up the Niger East senatorial district also known as zone B, APC and its candidate in the senatorial election in was leading with wide margin.
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