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Saraki loses senatorial poll to APC candidate
President Muhammadu Buhari won 462 votes at the Idigba Ilorin polling unit 004 of the party’s governorship candidate, Abdulrahman Abdulrazak.
Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party got 167 votes.
All the APC candidates trounced their PDP counterparts at the unit.
The APC won the senatorial poll with 473 votes to beat PDP’s Senator Bukola Saraki who polled 211, and won just his polling unit for himself and Atiku.
The APC also defeated the PDP in the House of Representatives election, winning 484 votes as against PDP’s 200.
PDP also recorded victory in the House of Reps election with 253 votes to APC’s 53 votes.
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