Election Result: PDP Defeats El-Rufai’s Deputy In Kaduna South Senatorial Polls

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the Kaduna South Senatorial District, Senator Danjuma La’ah, has been declared winner and re-elected to the National Assembly.

The announcement was made by the INEC returning officer, Suleiman Yashim, on Monday in Kafanchan.

He said that La’ah of the PDP scored 268,923 votes to defeat Deputy Governor Barnabas Bala Bantex of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who scored 133,287 votes.

NAN reports that other candidates included, Rijo Shikari of the PDC who scored 9,609 votes, Benedict Kura of ADC who scored 2,741 and eight others.