APC s Abdullahi Sule to battle PDPs Ombugadu in Nasarawa
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al-makura appreciated the maturity of all the aspirants and their supporters. he urged them to close ranks with the candidate of the party to win the general election and consolidate on the gains recorded so far in the state1 engr. abdullahi sule former managing director of dangote sugar refinery company has emerged as the all progressives congress apc governorship candidate in nasarawa state for the 2019 general elections1 fifty-nine year-old sules victory was announced in lafia by ismail ahmed chairman of apc electoral committee represented by the secretary abdullahi candido after the keenly contested primary by 11 aspirants1 ahmed said that sule polled 926 votes to defeat the deputy governor silas agara and nine other aspirants who participated in the exercise1 aliyu wadada a former lawmaker representing karukeffi kokona federal constituency at the national assembly placed second having polled a total of 517 while the deputy governor emerged third with 356 votes1 other aspirants include halilu envuluanza a former executive secretary of the national judicial council who polled 246 votes arc. jafaru ibrahim member representing nasarawatoto federal constituency garnered 105 votes while alhaji zakari idde former apc national vice chairman scored 88 votes1 dr. dauda kigbu arc. shehu tukur mohammed maikaya james angbazo and hassan liman san polled ten nine eight seven and four votes respectively1 he said that 2341 delegates were expected to participate in the primary election out of which 2337 were accredited. all the accredited voted1 he explained that 19 votes were voided for either double thumb printing or thumb printing on margin between boxes of two aspirants1 meanwhile governor umaru al-makura has commended the peaceful transparent and fair conduct of the election describing it as the hallmark of the partys change mantra1 his main rival will be 40 year-old emmanuel david ombugadu a member of the house of representatives who is the governorship candidate of the peoples democratic party pdp1 sule was born on 26 december 1959 in gudi station akwanga-west development area of nasarawa state1 according to a bio posted on facebook his father is the current traditional ruler hakimi of the village1 he began his education at the roman catholic mission rcm primary school gudi station in 1968. in 1974 he gained admission into zang secondary commercial school and later government college bukuru. after his secondary education he went to plateau state polytechnic birni-ladi1 in 1980 he left nigeria on a scholarship to study in the united states enrolling at indiana state university terre haute indiana. at the end of his four-year scholarship he had both the b.sc and m.sc degrees in mechanical technology and industrial technology1 he returned to nigeria in 1980 and served as a youth corps member with plateau utilities board. he later joined the jos steel rolling mill in 1985 as a production engineer1 after four years at the mill he returned to the united states in 1989 where he worked for several companies before again returning to nigeria in 20001 this time he co-founded sadiq petroleum nigeria limited in lagos and was made the pioneer managing director ceo1 sadiq petroleum company that same year participated in the privatisation of african petroleum plc and won the bid. he became the ceo of ap in 2001 and worked along with colleagues to turn the company round into profitability1 he first joined politics in 2006 and apart from his political and social engagements in nasarawa his last post was as the acting group managing director dangote sugar refinery in lagos1