Following the polls results, the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Ahmed Wadada, has sweep off the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu to clinch the senatorial seat in the Nasarawa western zone in the National Assembly elections held on Saturday.
It was gathered that the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Ahmed Wadada defeated the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu to clinch the senatorial seat in the Nasarawa western zone in the National Assembly elections held on Saturday with a total votes of 96,488 as against the 47,717 votes for APC while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 46,820 and the Labour Party (LP) 33,228 respectively.
This report was revealed by the INEC returning agent for Nasarawa West Senatorial District, Prof Nasiruddeen Baba while declaring the winner at the zonal collation centre in Keffi.
It is sad that, Adamu failed to deliver the APC candidate, Shehu Tukur to replace him at the red chambers while the APC also lost the Keffi/Kokona/Karu seat to the Social Democratic Party with Gaza Gwefwi retaining the seat.
The SDP polled 60,265 votes, the APC 28,417 votes, LP 29655 and the PDP 33,180 for the house of representatives elections.
In same vein, the Candidate of the SDP for Nasarawa North Senatorial district, Godiya Akwashiki also won the seat and Abubakar Dahiru retained his seat for Lafia/Obi federal constituency.
According to the report, the SDP, as declared by the electoral body has two senators out of the three and two members of the House of Representatives and these four winners under the umbrella of SDP are members of the APC who defected following the irregularities in the party’s primary elections in the past year.