Yar'Adua secured 3,024 votes out of a total of 4,007 valid
votes castNigeria's ruling Peoples
Democratic Party has chosen Umaru Yar'Adua, governor of the
northern Katsina State, as its candidate for the April 2007
presidential election.
The vote will choose a successor to Olusegun Obasanjo, whose
second four-year term is coming to an end and who is
constitutionally barred from standing again.
Yar'Adua, 55, won hands down, garnering 3,024 votes out of a total of
4,007 valid votes cast, an AFP journalist attending the PDP
convention in the federal capital Abuja said.
Rochas Okorocha, a former special adviser to President
Obasanjo came second with just 372 votes.
Expected victory
Muhammed
Gusau, a retired general who spent his career in intelligence,
came third with 271 votes. Ninety-four votes were disqualified.
Yar'Adua's
victory had been widely expected after the governors of
PDP-controlled states on Friday chose him as their "consensus
candidate" and urged all party delegates to vote for him on the grounds
that he "presented the best credentials" and was "generally
acceptable across the country".
The PDP, which won national elections in 1999 when the military
ceded power to civilians, controls 28 of Nigeria's 36 states and
has a majority in the national parliament.
The party was again victorious in 2003 and has promised to win again
next year.
Given that the ruling PDP remains powerful, despite internal
feuding, observers say that the candidate fielded by this
party stands a good chance of winning the presidential election.
Recource:Aljazeera
eng.
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