The immediate past Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Abubakar Saddique, has been declared the winner of the All Progressives Congress governorship primary in Bauchi State.
Gatekeepers News reports that Abubakar polled 370 votes to clinch the party’s ticket in Bauchi.
Halliru Jika, senator representing Bauchi central, polled 278 votes to place second.
Other governorship hopefuls such as Nura Manu got 269 votes, Musa Babayo had 70 votes; and Mahmud Maijama’a secured eight votes.
Abubakar served as chief of air staff from 2015 to January 2021 when President Muhammadu Buhari replaced him and other service chiefs.
The president later appointed him as Nigeria’s ambassador to Chad. He has resigned from that appointment.
