Katsina State Governor, Dikko Radda, has secured his return ticket for a second term in office after emerging as the consensus candidate at the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship Primary Election.
Radda was, at the primaries held on Thursday in Katsina declared the consensus candidate, by the party’s stakeholders.
His emergence as the consensus candidate sparked wide jubilations from the party supporters at the event.
The development implies that the governor will be the APC flagbearer for the 2027 Governorship election in the state.
Recall that Radda had in 2023 emerged the winner of the gubernatorial election as he defeated his closest rival Yakubu Lado of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The governor had the election polled 859,892 votes as against Lado’s 486,620 votes.
The New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) candidate, Nura Khalil, won 8263 votes, while Imran Jino of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) got 4,226 votes. Ibrahim Zakari of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) got 1,049 votes.
Labour Party’s Abu Musawa won 560 votes.