By Nasir Kura
Senate spokesman, Abdullahi Sabi Abdullahi, on Tuesday lost his bid to return to the National Assembly.
He was defeated in the All Progressives Congress primary election conducted across the three senatorial districts in the state.
Abdullahi who chairs the Senate Committee on Information, lost to the Niger State Commissioner for Local Government, Community Development and Chieftaincy Affair, Zakari Jikantoro.
In Niger East Senatorial District, two-time senator and Chairman, Senate Committee on Judiciary and Human Right, David Umoru, also lost to a new entrant, Sani Musa.
Meanwhile, all the three senatorial candidates for the Peoples Democratic Party in the state have emerged after it primaries conducted at the party’s zonal headquarters across the state on Tuesday.
In the Niger East Senatorial District, Ibrahim Isyaku emerged the party’s candidate after defeating three other candidates.
Also in Niger South, a former House of Representatives member, Baba Shehu Agaie, emerged the party’s candidate after defeating a former Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Abdulrahaman Gimba, and a former PDP Chairman in the state, Abdulraham Enagy.
