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From Itua, Abuja
Yahaya Tijjani Kaura, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara state, has secured the party’s ticket for Zamfara North ahead of the contest for National Assembly seats to hold simultaneously with the presidential election next January.
In a primary held on Monday in Gusau, Yahaya Tijjani Kaura polled
16,758 to defeat his main rival,
Sahabi Yari Alhaji who polled 1,465 votes. Another aspirant,Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi scored 1,447 votes.
The fresh primary was sequel to the pronouncement of the Court of Appeal sitting in Sokoto which last month, nullified the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary election for Zamfara North Senatorial District for gross non-compliance with party guidelines and the Electoral Act.
Justice Tunde Oyebamiji Awotoye, who delivered the ruling upheld the earlier decision of the Federal High Court, Gusau, which had in August 2026 voided the primary election.
The court further held that the respondent, Hon. Abdullahi Shinkafi, proved his case beyond reasonable doubt, and expressed strong reservations about how a senatorial district with 26,000 registered party members could return 70,000 votes for an aspirant.
Alhaji Sani Abdullahi, the Returning Officer for the APC Senatorial Primary Election Committee who declared Kaura as winner and certified the results noted that he satisfied the requirements of the APC Constitution and Guidelines and secured the highest number of votes.
The declaration formally returned Kaura as the APC’s senatorial candidate for the Zamfara North Senatorial District.
Kaura’s victory, with a commanding margin of 15,293 votes over the second-placed aspirant, represents a decisive outcome in the rerun contest.
