Kwankwaso’s Ally Ends APC’s Gaya 16-Year Reign In Senate

The Senator representing Kano South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Kabiru Gaya, has lost the chance to return to the Senate for the fifth term.

Naija News reports that the candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), Abdurrahman Kawu Sumaila, defeated Gaya of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who has been in the red chamber for 16 years.

According to the final results announced Monday morning by INEC returning officer, Professor Ibrahim Barde, Sumaila polled 319,857 votes to defeat Gaya who polled 192,518 votes.

Galadanci Murtal Bashir of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 14,880 while the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Umar Darki finished a distant fourth with 2,875 votes.

Gaya served as governor of Kano state in 1992 and was elected into the red chamber in 2007.

Sumaila on his part represented Takai/Sumaila Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives from 2003-2015 before he was appointed as President Buhari’s legislative aide in 2015.