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Kwara: Saraki, PDP lose again as APC wins 11 out of 16 LGAs in on-going collation
Kwara’s APC governorship candidate, Mr Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, is leading in the governorship election held on Saturday.
As of 9.30am on Sunday, results declared in 11 out of 16 local government areas in the state showed that the APC candidate had polled 208,
Meanwhile, his Peoples Democratic Party counterpart, Mr Abdulrazaq Atunwa, polled 72,167 votes. Abdulrazaq low leads with a margin of 136,351 votes.
The PDP began losing its hold on the state during the Feb 23 presidential and NASS elections in which Sen. President Bukola Saraki and other stalwarts of the ruling party failed to make any good showing for themselves and their presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar.
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