Senator Abdullahi Adamu, National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, lost his polling unit to the Peoples Democratic Party in Nasarawa State’s gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections yesterday.
According to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s presiding officer, Okoh Everest, the PDP received 159 votes in his GRA (A1) Polling Unit 010 in Keffi, the headquarters of Keffi Local Government Area, while the APC received 129 votes.
The Social Democratic Party received one vote, while the Labour Party received none. However, two days before the March 18 election, the LP merged its organization into the PDP for the governorship and State House of Assembly elections.
It was also stated that the APC lost the House of Assembly election in the polling unit of the APC leader to the PDP.
In the result reported by INEC, PDP polled 133 votes against APC’s 108, while governor Adullahi Sule won his polling unit with a landslide.
Adamu had also lost his senatorial district to Ahmed Wadada of the SDP in the National Assembly.
In the presidential elections, Adamu had lost his polling unit to LP with Peter Obi going on to win the state in that election.