By Mansur Muktar Danfako
Hon. Dr Abdulaziz Abubakar Yari ( Shattiman Zamfara ) has emerged the winner of the Zamfara West Senatorial Election held last Saturday.
Yari who won under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC , blown his biggest rival candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.
Declaring the results , the Returning Officer to the Zamfara West Senatorial Zone election, Prof. Rufus Femi Tinuola, disclosed that Abdulaziz Abubakar Yari of APC got 147,346 votes, beating his opponent of PDP who got just 58, 832 votes.
Prof. Tinuola gave the verdict that Abdulaziz Abubakar Yari having met all requirements of the law, is returned the Senator-Elect for Zamfara West Senatorial zone.
Yari who is a former Zamfara state governor is the phase setter in the political up tunes of Zamfara and a very hard striking political icon in Nigeria.
However, other political parties that made some marks in the senatorial election include NNPP with 363, APGA 258 and ADP 239 etc.