APC primaries: Inuwa Yahaya emerges as Gombe governorship candidate
A governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Gombe State, Alhaji Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya has been declared winner of the party’s primary election held at the Gombe International Hotel.
He scored 859 votes to defeat eight other aspirants and clinch the gubernatorial ticket of the party ahead of the 2019 general elections.
In the final results announced by the chairman of the election committee, Alhaji Habu Bawuro, his closest rival, Muhammad Jibrin Barde scored 463, Umar Farouk Bamusa 139, Senator Idris Abdullahi Umar 68, Alhaji Umar Kwairanga 54, Abubakar Habu Mu’azu 49, Ibrahim Dasuki Jalo Waziri 28, Khamisu Ahmed Mailantarki 9 votes and Aliyu Haidar Abubakar polled 5 votes.
Declaring the winner and flag bearer of the APC in Gombe, Bawuro said Inuwa Yahaya scored the highest number of votes cast hence is returned elected as winner of the party’s primary election.
According to him, a total of 1,721 delegates were accredited from the 114 political wards across 11 LGAs of the state, adding that a total of 1,718 votes were cast with 44 votes rendered invalid.
In his acceptance speech, Inuwa described the election as ‘no victor no vanquished’, calling on other aspirants to join hands with him to wrestle power and salvage the state from the PDP-led administration.
