Daily Trust
14 January 2011
A big all day and night party is already on at the State House in Abuja this morning following the expected victory of President Goodluck Jonathan and his running mate, Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo in the epic presidential primaries of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party [PDP].
With results in from 21 states as at 3am this morning, Jonathan had won all but three state delegations with a total of nearly 1400 votes. His top challenger, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, won outright in the three far-Northern states of Sokoto, Zamfara and Kano , and he came within a hair's breadth of staging an upset in Bauchi State
In Sokoto, Atiku won by a landslide 84 votes to 32, while in Zamfara, he won by an even wider margin of 70 votes to 7. Atiku's victory in Sokoto appeared to confirm reports that Governor Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko had led the old Caliphate capital to oppose Jonathan's bid and uphold the power rotation principle that he and 9 other Northern governors endorsed at a summit in Kaduna
Although Wamakko had teamed up with Jigawa State governor Sule Lamido and Adamawa State
Atiku's most significant victory however was recorded in the populous far Northern state of Kano
A big all day and night party is already on at the State House in Abuja this morning following the expected victory of President Goodluck Jonathan and his running mate, Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo in the epic presidential primaries of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party [PDP].
With results in from 21 states as at 3am this morning, Jonathan had won all but three state delegations with a total of nearly 1400 votes. His top challenger, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, won outright in the three far-Northern states of Sokoto, Zamfara and Kano , and he came within a hair's breadth of staging an upset in Bauchi State
In Sokoto, Atiku won by a landslide 84 votes to 32, while in Zamfara, he won by an even wider margin of 70 votes to 7. Atiku's victory in Sokoto appeared to confirm reports that Governor Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko had led the old Caliphate capital to oppose Jonathan's bid and uphold the power rotation principle that he and 9 other Northern governors endorsed at a summit in Kaduna
Although Wamakko had teamed up with Jigawa State governor Sule Lamido and Adamawa State
Atiku's most significant victory however was recorded in the populous far Northern state of Kano
Daily Trust
14 January 2011
Sulaiman Bisalla
A big all day and night party is already on at the State House in Abuja this morning following the expected victory of President Goodluck Jonathan and his running mate, Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo in the epic presidential primaries of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party [PDP].
With results in from 21 states as at 3am this morning, Jonathan had won all but three state delegations with a total of nearly 1400 votes. His top challenger, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, won outright in the three far-Northern states of Sokoto, Zamfara and Kano , and he came within a hair's breadth of staging an upset in Bauchi State
In Sokoto, Atiku won by a landslide 84 votes to 32, while in Zamfara, he won by an even wider margin of 70 votes to 7. Atiku's victory in Sokoto appeared to confirm reports that Governor Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko had led the old Caliphate capital to oppose Jonathan's bid and uphold the power rotation principle that he and 9 other Northern governors endorsed at a summit in Kaduna
Although Wamakko had teamed up with Jigawa State governor Sule Lamido and Adamawa State
Atiku's most significant victory however was recorded in the populous far Northern state of Kano
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