Nigeria: Senator Weeps Over Lose of PDP Ticket in Sokoto

10 January 2011

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.

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