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BANDITS BLOCK GUSAU FUNTUA ROAD, ABDUCT UNSPECIFIED NUMBER OF TRAVELERS

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Some suspected bandits had invaded Funtua-Gusau highway and fired shots at innocent passengers plying the road.

According to some eyewitnesses, the bandits blocked the road around 7:30am and started shooting at the passengers indiscriminately.

Scores of people have been wounded by gunshots, while unspecified number of other passengers have been abducted and taken to the bandit enclaves.

“The bandits shots at the vehicles on arrival around Magazu area of Funtua-Gusau highway and presently the injured victims are on admission at Tsafe General Hospital”.

The condition was terrible and vehicles have been put on traffic and before the arrival of the military, passengers had been panicking due to the fear of the unknown.

Meanwhile, on Friday evening, another sets of bandits blocked Funtua-Gusau road in between Tazame and Yandoton Daji village around 5:00pm and abducted scores of people.

This is different from dozens of other passengers that have been kidnapped and shot to dead by different group of people along the area.

Police could not be reached for comment as at the time of filing this report

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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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