Prominent senators, governors who lost out in Senate race

Some prominent senators in the Eighth National Assembly will not be returning in the next assembly, having lost at the polls on Saturday.

Millions of Nigerians on Saturday went to the polls to elect a president who will lead Africa’s most populous country for the next four years. The voters also elected federal lawmakers who will represent them at the National Assembly for the next four years.

All of Nigeria’s 109 Senate seats and 360 House of Representative seats were also for grabs across the 36 states and the FCT. A total of 1,904 candidates took part in the senatorial elections while 4,680 sought seats in the House of Representatives.

According to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), a total of 72.8 million (72,775,585) were eligible to vote in the elections, having collected their permanent voters’ cards (PVCs).

Of the 36 states and Abuja, Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, and Rivers led with the highest number of eligible voters.

A total of 91 political parties were registered to participate in the elections which took take place in 119,973 polling units and 57,023 voting points nationwide.

But based on INEC’s official result, some of the strong pillars in the eight assembly have been rejected by their constituencies and fallen in the battle to secure a place in the ninth assembly.

They are as follows;

    BUKOLA SARAKI (PDP)

    ABIODUN OLUJIMI (PDP)

    SHEHU SANI (PRP)

    GODSWILL AKPABIO (APC)

    MONSURAT SUNMONU (ADC)

    BINTA GARBA (APC)

    MAO OHABUNWA (PDP)

    ANDY UBAH (APC)

    GEORGE AKUME (APC)

    OLUSEGUN MIMIKO (ZLP)

   

Source: Premium times