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ALIERU ATTACK KATSINA COMMUNITY KILLS ELEVEN, INJURED SEVERAL OTHERS

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Suspected bandits loyal to Ado Alieru the popular bandit leader who was recently turbanned in Zamfara had launched a murderous attack against Ruwan Godiya community in faskari local government area of Katsina state.

A source who confided on this medium said they launched the attack around 12:00am today, living behind eleven people dead with scores sustaining various degree of injuries.

He told this medium that, the fresh attack on their communities may be triggered by the anger of the bandit leader against the recent pronouncement by the Katsina state government that he is still wanted by the police in Katsina.

Recently, Ado Alieru was awarded the title of Sarkin Fulanin Katsina by the Emir of Birnin Yandoto in Zamfara and he was turbanned on Saturday at a a ceremony attended by crowd of relations and well-wishers.

The turbanning ceremony generated mixed reaction, a circumstance that call for Zamfara state government to suspend the Emir and constitute a committee to investigate the rationale behind his action.

Our source at Ruwan Godiya said, the decision by the Katsina state government to renew its call for declaring Ado Alieru wanted may surely be consequential to the safety of the people along Faskari, Bakori, and several other areas sharing border with Zamfara.

He also faulted the decision taken against the Emir of Birnin Yandoto by the Governor of Zamfara as another wrong step that may trigger the anger of Ado Aleiru to renew his violence attack against the people of Katsina and Zamfara.

“As I speak to you, the majority of us along Zamfara border with Katsina had enjoyed the peace deal entered into with Alieru but now that the governments of Katsina and Zamfara have taken some contrary decisions we may not find it easy anymore”.

“Up to now some victims of the Tuesday night attack at Ruwan Godiya are fuming and the chances of their survival is zero, and we fear getting the corpses of those killed in one place to conduct funeral for them” the source added.

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FMR. ZAMFARA SPEAKER SCORES (229) TO DELIVERS POLING

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Former Speaker of Zamfara House of Assembly Sanusi Garba Rikiji of the APC has scored a total of (229) votes to defeat the PDP who polls (61) votes only.

His poling unit is Rumfar Galadima (013) in Gusau the capital city of Zamfara State.

As for the result of the state house of assembly in his poling units, APC scored a total of (232) to defeat the PDP who polls (51) votes.

Rikiji is currently the house of reps candidate for Gusau and Tsafe in the 2023 election, whose election was declared inclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

He is contesting the seat together with the serving members Kabiru Amadu Mai Palace, who is from the opposition PDP.

 

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CHAIR ZBIRS, WORKS COMMISSIONER, DELIVERS POLING UNITS

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The Chairman of Zamfara State Board of Internal Revenue Service, Ali Akilu Dama Bungudu has also delivered his poling unit.

His party the APC scored a total (173) to defeat the PDP who scored (111) votes.

Similar votes were also recorded for both political parties at the level of State assembly elections.

Similarly, Zamfara State Commissioner for Works Rabiu Garba Gusau has delivered his poling units with a wide margin to defeat the PDP.

APC scored (96) votes to defeat the opposition People’s Democratic Party, which scored (16) votes for both the Governorship election and state assembly for Gusau (1) at his poling unit.

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SHA’AYAU S. PAWA MAFARA SCORES (502) VOTES TO DEFEAT PDP WITH ZERO VOTE.

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A political ally of former Governor Yari Sha’ayau Yusuf S. Paws has defeated PDP in his Township Primary school poling unit in Talatar Marafa local government area of Zamfara State.

According to an official result sheet, the politician who is a member of All Progressives Congress (APC) scored (502) votes to defeat the PDP who scored (0) votes.

The politician has made history since 2015 by maintaining the only poling units which opposition party has never won a single vote during election.

He repeated the same history during the 2023 Presidential and national assembly elections conducted three weeks back, when PDP failed to score a single vote.

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