Nuhu Ribadu, the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has won the PDP governorship primaries in Adamawa state.
Ribadu beat the incumbent Governor Bala Ngilari and other five contestants in the primary election held in Abuja.
Premium Times reports that The party’s National Working Committee,
NWC, moved the election to Abuja after Mr. Ngilari was accused by a panel sent to the state to conduct primary election for state Assembly aspirants of holding them hostage.
Analysis of the result showed that Mr. Ribadu got 688 votes while the Governor, Ngilari got 26 votes.
Awwal Tukur, the son of a former chairman of the PDP, Bamanga Tukur, got 24 votes, a former Executive Secretary of the Universal
Basic Education, Commission, UBEC, Ahmed Modibbo, had 30 votes while retired General Aliyu Kama got 3 votes.
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