three big head, Yuguda,suswam ,Ngige defeated

Top three Peoples Democratic Party governors have lost their
senatorial bid. The governors are Isa Yuguda (Bauchi); Gabriel Suswam
(Benue) and Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu.
Also in Anambra state , a former governor, Chris Ngigie, who
represents Anambra-Central, lost his seat.
While in Kogi State, the senator representing Kogi-West, Smart
Adeyemi, lost to former House of Representatives member, Dino Melaye
of the All Progressives Congress
In Benue, Suswam was defeated by incumbent Senator, Chief Barnabas
Gemade, in the race for the Benue North-East seat.
Gemade, an APCmember, polled 140,715 votes to beat Suswam.
Suswam, a sitting PDP governor, scored 118,608 votes to lose in his
ambition to occupy the senate seat.
The Collation Officer for the zone, Prof. Mohammed Adah, returned
Gemade as validly elected about 11pm on Monday.The announcement laid
to rest the conflicting accounts since Saturday over which of the two
politicians won the election.
Incidentally, Gemade is a former National Chairman of the PDP, who
defected from the party to the APC after Suswam showed interest in the
senate seat.
Gemade joins Senate President, David Mark, and another former governor
of the state, Mr. George Akume, as the winners for Benue-North and
Benue-South senatorial districts respectively.
In Bauchi State, Governor Yuguda lost his bid to represent
Bauchi-South from the senatorial district in the Senate as he was
defeated by Mallam Ali Wakili of the APC.
The Collation Officer and Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi,
Dr. Shuibu Musa, while declaring the result, announced that Wakili
scored 341, 708 votes to defeat Yuguda who scored 115, 575 votes.
Yuguda lost to Wakili in all the seven local government areas of the
state which make up the senatorial district.
A breakdown of the results indicated that Wakili scored 134, 528 votes
in Bauchi Local Government Area where the governor hails from while
Yuguda got 23, 945.
In Dass Local Government Area, Yuguda scored 11, 923 while Wakili got 17, 009.
While Wakili scored 73, 033 votes in Toro Local Government Area,
Yuguda polled 30, 401 votes.
In Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area, where Wakili hails from, the
governor scored 23, 519 votes as against the 40, 147 scored by Wakili.
The total votes scored by Wakili scored 264, 777 votes in the four
Local Governments is 264, 777 while Yuguda scored 89, 788.
Results for Alkaleri showed that Yuguda got 10, 308 to lose to Wakili
who pooled 42, 660.
The APC Candidate scored 18, 878 in Kirfi while that of the PDP got just 4, 016.
The last result from Bogoro indicated that Wakili won with. 15,396 to
beat Yuguda who scored 11, 231.
It will be recalled that in 2007, the then Governor Adamu Mu'azu, (now
National Chairman of the PDP) lost to Senator Bala Mohammed in what
was considered an upset, thereby truncating Mu'azu's ambition to
become a senator after eight years as a governor.
Also, Alhaji Usman Nafada, the candidate of the APC has been declared
winner of the election into Gombe North senatorial district in Gombe
State.
Releasing the result in Malam/Sidi headquarters of Kwami Local
Government Area on Monday, the Returning Officer, Malama Amina Ahmed,
said Nafada polled 166,062 votes to defeat Alhaji Abdulkair Saleh of
the PDP who scored 32,126 votes.
APC candidate Alhaji Yahaya Tongo also won the election into Gombe,
Kwami and Funakaye Federal constituency with 130,131 votes.
Returning Officer, Malama Zainab Inusa said Alhaji Ya'u Hassan Marafa
of the PDP came second with 20, 576 votes.
House of Representatives election into Dukku/Nafada Federal
Constituency in Gombe state was won by Hajiya Aishatu Dukku of the APC
with 22,838 votes.
The returning officer of the election, Inusa Abubakar, said Dukku
defeated Alhaji Sambo Sa'ad of the PDP who came second with 4,106
votes.
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