PDP Dominates Bauchi Assembly As APC Gets 8 Seats

In what appeared to be a radical shift from 2019 when the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won the Bauchi State governorship seat but lost control of the House of Assembly to the All Progressives Congress (APC), the ruling party has won 22 seats to form a majority in the incoming legislature.

LEADERSHIP gathered that out of the 31-member assembly, APC won only eight seats to be a minority in the hallowed chamber while the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) won a seat.

The deputy director of voter education of INEC Office in Bauchi, Aliyu Shaba disclosed this when he unveiled the list of winners of the March 18, 2023, state assembly election.

The list showed that the APC won eight seats while the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) got one seat.

According to the results announced by INEC, the state constituencies won by the PDP are: Duguri/Gwana, Abdullahi Dan-Bala; Kirfi, Umar Habibu; Bauchi Central, Jamilu Dahiri Barade; Zungur/Galambi, Yusuf Ahmed, Dass, Abdullahi Ahmed and Bogoro, Musa Nakwada.

Others are Lame Toro, Lawal Garba; Toro Jama’a, Saidu Hamza; Ningi, Abubakar Sulaiman; Bura, Tanko Bura; Hardawa Misau, Babayo Akuyam and Dambam/ Dagauda /Jalam, Mohammed Garba.

The PDP also won in Ganjuwa-East, Ladan Mohammed; Ganjuwa – West, Adamu Kawu; Katagum Zaki, Bello Maiwa; Sakwa Zaki, Wanzam Mohammed and Itas/ Gadau, Abdullahi Yusuf.

The PDP also won in Disina Shira constituency, Hodi Jibir; Shira, Hassan Auwal; Giade, Adamu Abubakar; Madara/ Chinade, Ala Ahmed and Gamawa, Sarkin-Jadori Bello.

The APC won in Azare/Madangala, Saleh Zakariyya; Udubo Gamawa, Lele Mohammed; Pali Alkaleri, Garba Aminu; and Darazo, Sulaiman Darazo.

Malam Dauda Lawal of the APC also won Sade state constituency; Yahaya Maikudi for Chiroma Misau; Abdul Rishi for Lame Toro and Abdulrasheed Adamu for Lere/ Bula, while Mubarak Haruna of the NNPP won in Jama’are constituency.