{"id":49760,"date":"2018-10-06T17:59:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T16:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=49760"},"modified":"2018-10-06T17:59:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T16:59:52","slug":"pdp-primaries-federal-lawmaker-sule-garo-defeats-brother-to-win-reps-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=49760","title":{"rendered":"PDP primaries: Federal lawmaker, Sule-Garo defeats brother to win Reps ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A member of the House of Representatives representing Gwarzo \/ Kabo Federal Constituency of Kano State ,Alhaji Nasiru Sule-Garo, has defeated his younger brother to clinch the House of Representatives ticket on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Sule-Garo, an elder brother of Kwankwaso\u2019s wife, defeated his sibling identified as Faruk Sule-Garo at the Gwarzo\/Kabo Federal Constituency primary election.<\/p>\n

The returning officer, Dr Salisu Muhammadu Tudunkaya, who announced the result of the election, said Nasiru polled 173 votes to defeat his brother, Faruk who got only 12 votes.<\/p>\n

Tundunkaya stated that 198 accredited delegates participated in the voting, adding that 13 votes were declared invalid.<\/p>\n

\u201d I, Dr Salisu Muhammad Tudunkaya, chairman primary election committee of PDP, hereby announced Nasiru Sule-Garo as the winner of this keenly contested primary election.<\/p>\n

\u201cA total of 198 delegates were accredited and 13 votes were invalid. The result is thus: Faruk Sule-Garo got 12 votes while Nasiru Sule-Garo got 173 votes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith this result, Nasiru Sule-Garo is the winner and is hereby declared as the flag bearer of PDP in the forthcoming general election, \u201c Tudunkaya said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A member of the House of Representatives representing Gwarzo \/ Kabo Federal Constituency of Kano State ,Alhaji Nasiru Sule-Garo, has defeated his younger brother to clinch the House of Representatives ticket on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Sule-Garo, an elder brother of Kwankwaso\u2019s wife, defeated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-49760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-pdp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}