By Abdallah el-Kurebe
VICE-CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on Petroleum, Senator Abubakar Umar Gada, representing Sokoto East Senatorial District, was reported to have wept profusely after losing his bid to get his party, PDP nod to return to the senate

Speaking to Vanguard shortly after the primaries, one of the delegates, said they could not return the serving Senator because he was not a true representative of his constituency.

He said: “For a serving Senator to lose his seat is very difficult if he performs. People of our constituency have seen other Senators commissioning constituency projects for their people, but certainly not ours.”

He added that primary election served as the people’s “Supreme Court,” a weapon with which people of Sokoto East Senatorial District passed their judgement against “a boss-Senator, who failed to make his people proud.”

Senator Gada was allegedly seen weeping after he lost.

He secured only 60 votes as against his challenger, Engineer Ibrahim Abdullahi Gobir, a former Board Chairman of the Cement Company of Northern Nigeria, CCNN, who scored 1,547 votes.

Similary,  three members of the House of Representatives from the state lost their bids to return to the National Assembly. They  are Mr. Aliyu Dikko, representing Binji/Silame Federal Constituency, who got 150 votes; Mr. Saidu Muhammadu Gumburawa, representing Kware/Wamakko Federal Constituency, who got 42 votes and Mr. Haliru Garba Gidan Hamma, who got 168 votes.

Respectively, the trio lost out to Chairman of Binji Local Government, who is also the Chairman of ALGON, Alhaji Sa’adu Nabunkari, who scored 248 votes; Abdullahi Muhammadu Wamakko, who scored 386 votes and Speaker of Sokoto State House of Assembly, Alhaji Abdullahi Balarabe Salame, who scored 268 votes.