Politics
HE POLLED 1,532 VOTES! Atiku wins PDP presidential primary
A former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, on Sunday won the Peoples Democratic Party presidential primary to emerge the party’s candidate for the 2019 election.
He emerged after a keenly contested primary held at Adokiye Amasiemaka Stadium, Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital on Sunday.
The Chairman of the PDP Convention Committee and Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, announced the results of the primary on Sunday morning.
He said Atiku polled 1,532 votes while Aminu Tambuwal polled 693 votes to place second.
Other results are Bukola Saraki [317]; Ibrahim Dankwambo [111]; Ahmed Makarfi [74]; Sule Lamido [96]; David Mark [35]; Rabi Kwankwaso [158]; Datti Baba-Ahmed [05]; Attahiru Bafawara [48]; Jonah Jang [19] and Kabiru Turaki [65].
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The total votes cast were 3221, while delegates accredited were 3,274 and the voided votes stood at 68.
Atiku Abubakar was born on Nov. 25, 1946, in Jada, Adamawa. He was the vice-president of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007, on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), with Olusegun Obasanjo as President.
Abubakar worked with the Nigeria Customs Service for twenty years, rising to become the Deputy Director, the second highest position in the Service, then. He retired in April 1989 and took up full-time business and politics.
Abubakar contested for the APC presidential ticket in 2015 and came third behind Muhammadu Buhari and Rabiu Kwankwaso.
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He recently defected to the PDP from the APC to enable him to realise his ambition to become the president of Nigeria.
(NAN)
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