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APC Presidential Primary: Buhari gets 2.9m votes in Kano State

APC Presidential Primary: Buhari gets 2.9m votes in Kano State
By Tukur Muntari
Votes
Kano, Sept. 28, 2018 (NAN) President Muhammadu Buhari has secured 2,931,235 votes at the just concluded presidential primary election held across the 484 wards in the 44 local government areas of Kano State.
The figure is contained in a statement signed by Mr Abba Anwar, the Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje, and made available to newsmen in Kano on Saturday.
According to him, Ganduje announced the result of the election at the party collation centre.
He explained that the governor retired to the state party secretariat, which served as the collation centre for the exercise after casting his vote at his Ganduje Ward in Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area of the state.
Ganduje assured Kano’s total support to the candidature of Buhari as the sole candidate who will carry the party’s flag come 2019.
“Our support is without any doubt looking at the result of this all-encompassing and highly participatory process,’’ Anwar quoted the governor saying after announcing the result.
He attributed the massive turnout of registered party members during the primary to stakeholders’ effort at mobilising party members to consolidate the gains of direct primary election process.
“People believe that President Muhammadu Buhari is up and doing. While APC manifesto is a clear and direct manifestation of Buhari’s love for the country.
“Ours is just to replicate the good work enunciated by this complete gentleman, our dear leader,” Ganduje said in the statement. (NAN)
MTM/MST
Edited by Muhammad Suleiman Tola

Education

Plateau primary school pupil wins N12 Million scholarship

NAN-H-79
Competition
By Martha Agas
Jos, March 21, 2017(NAN) Master Godswill Okafor, a primary six pupil of the Plateau Private School, Jos has won a N12 million scholarship in a mathematics competition held in Abuja.

The scholarship covers his six-year secondary school education in any of the six Tulip Colleges in Nigeria.

Okafor came second in the northern region where he competed with 512 others.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the competition was organised by the Nigeria Tulip International College (NTIC), Abuja, in collaboration with the National Mathematical Centre, Abuja.

Mr Lucky Abdul-Hakeem, the Managing Director of NTIC, who briefed newsmen on the competition on Tuesday in Jos, said that the initiative was to encourage pupils to love mathematics and improve their performance in it.

“The scholarship covers tuition, feeding and accommodation of the pupil for the six-year study in the school,” he explained.

He said that the competition commenced in February and ended with the award ceremony, adding that N200,000 cash was also given to Okafor.

Abdula-Hakeem said that a desktop computer was given to Okafor’s school, while his mathematics teacher received N100,000 cash gift.

In her remarks, Mrs. Joy Okafor, the mother of the winner, commended the school for grooming her son to excel in the competition.

Okafor, a nurse, challenged parents to augment efforts of schools toward instilling excellence in children.

“We assist him in his homework; his father downloads mathematics questions from the internet and challenge him to answer them,” he said.

Godwin, who described his feat as “very encouraging”, advised his peers to love mathematics.

“The subject is simple; you only need to know the formula,” he said. (NAN)
MAA/MNA/ETS

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Edited by Maureen Atuonwu and Ephraims Sheyin