October 24, (THEWILL) – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won Saturday’s rescheduled chairmanship election in Zango Kataf local government area of Kaduna state.
The election was rescheduled to Saturday, the 23rd of October, 2021, over security concerns.
Announcing the results of the poll, the Independent National Electoral Council (INEC) returning officer, Prof. Nuhu Garba, said the PDP candidate, Francis Zimbo, scored 28,771 votes to defeat John Hassan of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who polled 19,509 votes.
“Mr Francis Zimbo of the PDP, having satisfied the requirements of the law and scored the highest number of votes is hereby declared winner of the election and returned elected”, Prof. Garba said.
PDP also won nine of the 11 councillorship seats while the APC clinched the remaining two seats.
