FILE PHOTO: Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule
Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has emerged as the All Progressives Congress candidate for the Nasarawa North Senatorial District ahead of the 2027 general election.
Sule won the party’s senatorial primary election held on Tuesday, polling 47,393 votes to defeat his only challenger, former Deputy Governor of the state and immediate past Director-General of the National Directorate of Employment, Silas Ali Agara, who secured 2,915 votes.
The result showed that the governor defeated Agara with a margin of more than 44,000 votes.
The Returning Officer for the election, Musa Guri, announced the result in Akwanga, describing the exercise as peaceful, credible and transparent.
