TOP STORY (Kaduna LG Poll): E-Voting Deals With El-Rufai, As He Loses Polling Unit To PDP
Afnews Editor
Sep 04, 2021
Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai has lost the Saturday's chairmanship and councillorship elections in his polling unit to the main opposition, People's Democratic Party (PDP).
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El-Rufai voted at his Polling Unit 001 Ungwar Sarki, Kaduna North local government area where he said his target was not to win all the polls but to improve the voting process using the Electronic Voting Machine.
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According to the result announced by Muhammad Sani, Presiding Officer of the Unit, El-Rufai's All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 62 votes in the chairmanship election while Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scored 86 votes out of the 159 votes cast.
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In the councillorship election, APC polled 53 votes while PDP polled 100 votes out of 162 total votes cast.
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While voting earlier, El Rufai had said: "We are not going to behave like other parties or other state government of the ruling party. We will allow the people of Kaduna State to elect who they want.
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"We do not have to win everywhere, though we have worked for the people of Kaduna State, they have seen our foot print, the govt and the local government everywhere, they have seen and we are confident that all reasonable minded people will vote for our party, our candidate because they know we are committed to the welfare of the peopleÔÇØ.
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