Tambuwal Gets APC Ticket In Sokoto

House of Reps speaker Aminu Tambuwal won the All
Progressives Congress (APC) primary governorship
election in Sokoto State.

The election process started yesterday, December 4,
across the country for the major opposition party to pick
candidates for 2015 polls, The Nation reports.
After the result was announced, Tambuwal, who has
recently defected from the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) to the APC, thanked the delegates for their
support and call on all the APC supporters to ensure
the victory of the party in 2015, Sahara Reporters
adds.

“I, therefore, wish to thank delegates and the good
people of Sokoto State with the hope that you will
extend your support to the party to ensure we form a
responsive government that will transform the state.”
Mr. Umana Okon Umana won in Akwa Ibom,
Olorogun O’tega Emerhor in Delta, Alhaji Abubakar
Sani Belo in Niger .
Meanwhile governors Ibikunle Amosun ( Ogun ), Abiola
Ajimobi ( Oyo ), Abdulfatah Ahmed ( Kwara), Abdulaziz
Yari ( Zamfara ), Tanko Al-Makura ( Nasarawa ) and
Ibrahim Gaidam ( Yobe) got returned for the second
term.
In Enugu State, the state chapter of the party adopted
Okey Ezea as its consensus governorship candidate for
the 2015 election. While in Rivers State won the
earlier endorsed state candidate, Dr. Dakuku Adol
Peterside.
Nasir El-Rufai emerged the winner in Kaduna.

In Lagos, the shadow poll kicked off around 1.30 pm,
when the accreditation of 6,000 delegates from the pre-
existing 20 local governments had been finished.
Governor Babatunde Fashola was absent at the voting,
however his deputy Mrs. Adejoke Orelope- Adefulire,
Secretary to Government Dr. Oluranti Adebule and
some commissioners witnessed the poll.
As it was expected, Akinwunmi Ambode, the candidate
previously handpicked by the APC leader Bola Tinubu
won Lagos gubernatorial primary.