Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, ex Kaduna governor, Sunday Katung and Shehu Sani have emerged winners of the All Progressives Congress (APC) senatorial primary elections in Kaduna North, Kaduna South and Kaduna Central senatorial districts respectively.
Yero defeated two other aspirants in the election which held on Monday to secure the APC ticket ahead for 2027 election.
Announcing the result in Zaria, the Returning Officer, Hassan Saleh, said Yero polled 6,060 votes to defeat Muhammad Mu’azu Mukaddas, who scored 1,044 votes, and Yusuf Bala Ikara, who secured 372 votes.
Speaking shortly after the exercise, Yero commended party members and stakeholders for the peaceful conduct of the primary election.
He also extended a hand of fellowship to his co-contestants and urged party members to unite ahead of the 2027 general elections.
The former governor thanked party supporters and stakeholders for the confidence reposed in him, pledging to provide quality representation if elected.
Yero who was deputy to late governor, Patrick Yakowa on the platform of the PDP, was sworn in as governor on December 15, 2012, following Yakowa’s death in a helicopter crash in Bayelsa state on December 15, 2012.
He was however defeated by Nasir El-Rufai during the 2015 elections.
He defected to the APC under Governor Uba Sani’s administration.
In Kaduna South Senatorial District, incumbent Senator Sunday Katung defeated his predecessor, Danjuma Tella Laah, and Michael Auta to retain the ticket for the seat.
According to the results announced by the returning officer, Katung polled a total of 7,453 votes, while Laah and Auta scored 1,370 and 878 votes, respectively.
The results were announced at the collation centre at the Jema’a Local Government Secretariate on Monday.
In the Kaduna Central senatorial district, Shehu Sani, who represented the area in 2015 to 2019, scored 9,105 to defeat former Speaker of the Kaduna state House Assembly, Yusuf Zailani who 1,021.
Shettima Yerima, who withdrew from the race also scored 1,253 votes.
The results were announced in Kaduna by the returning officer Samira Jibrin.
