{"id":82516,"date":"2021-06-21T07:36:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T06:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=82516"},"modified":"2021-06-21T07:36:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T06:36:35","slug":"kaduna-bye-election-pdp-savours-victory-mocks-el-rufai-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/kaduna-bye-election-pdp-savours-victory-mocks-el-rufai-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaduna Bye-Election: PDP Savours Victory, Mocks El-Rufai, APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1703117486273273122\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said its victory in Saturday\u2019s Kaduna bye-election is a further signal that the people of Kaduna state have since rejected Governor El-Rufai and his APC.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The PDP said its clean victory in Kaduna, particularly in the political melting point like Sabon Gari Constituency, is a foretaste of the crushing defeat that awaits the APC in Kaduna and other states of the federation in the 2023 general elections.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan PDP said it&#8217;s resounding victory in the Kaduna election is a reaffirmation that Kaduna state is home to PDP, in spite of the APC administration, which is now being shown the way out.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said, &#8220;The outcome of the Saturday\u2019s bye-election also reinforces the popularity of the PDP as well as our candidate, Alhaji Usman Baba, while serving as an unmistaken expression of the people\u2019s rejection of the high-handedness, oppression, executive recklessness and arrogance, divisiveness, vindictiveness, economic repression, infrastructural decay and general misrule that have characterised governance in Kaduna state under the APC.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Since it is clear that the APC administration in Kaduna state has nothing to offer the people other than imposing a siege mentality and arrogant power intoxication, our party counsels the APC to read the hand writing on the wall on the fate that awaits it in 2023.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;The PDP congratulates the member-elect, Alhaji Usman Baba, as well as the people of Kaduna state and urges him to hit the ground running, in line with the commitment of the PDP to provide the dividends of democracy, which have eluded the people of Kaduna State in the last six years of APC\u2019s misrule.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The bye-election followed the declaration of the seat as vacant by the Kaduna State House Assembly in April.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Usman Baba of the PDP as the winner of the bye-election for Sabon Gari Constituency in the Kaduna State House of Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The Returning Officer, Mohammed-Nuruddin Musa, who declared the result on Saturday in Zaria, said Mr Baba won the election with 9,113 votes.<\/p>\n<p>He defeated his closest contender, Musa Musa of the APC who got 7, 404 votes.<\/p>\n<p>The returning officer also said that Anas Abdullahi of the ADC had 62 votes; Chindo Ibrahim of ADP, 61 votes, while Musa Halilu of PRP secured 305 votes.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said its victory in Saturday\u2019s Kaduna bye-election is a further signal that the people of Kaduna state have since rejected Governor El-Rufai and his&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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