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GUNMEN ABDUCT OVER THIRTY PERSONS INCLUDING DISTRICT HEAD IN SOKOTO

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Residents, Gwadabawa area in Sokoto state had continued to raise concern over unending insecurity ravaging the area.

Last week bandits invaded Gwadabawa area and abducted seven persons including the district head of Manmande.

Few days back they came back and abducted another eleven sets of people from the area and moved with them toward Illela axis.

According to the council chairman of Gwadabawa, during the last operation he had mobilized some armed local security forces to confront the bandits along the routes they were moving with the abductees, but could not succeed in getting them rescued.

While moving with the abductees, according to him, they invaded another village in Illela and abducted another nine persons.

Chairman of illela local government in Sokoto said while moving along that routes, they kept abducting people village by village.

He insisted that, on average they have abducted close to thirty people who have not yet returned.

Abdullahi Muhammad Tsamaye a politician called on the political authorities to rise to the public expectations and secure the people noting that it will be wrong for the Politicians to be paying deep emphasis on how to win election not how to fight insecurity.

Voice of America reporter Muhammad Nasir reported that for sometimes, the police spokesperson in Sokoto has not been responding to the calls by journalists who are calling to verify incidences of insecurity hitting the state.

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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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