The former Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami has won the PDP repeat Governorship primary election for Gombe State held on Tuesday.
The repeat of the governorship primary followed nullification of the early election held on May 26 by the Supreme Court that produce Pantami and fixed Tuesday, September 29, 2026, for the fresh Gombe governorship primary and cleared Pantami, Khamisu Ahmed Mailantarki and Usman Aliyu Garry to participate.
Professor Pantami emerged winner of the direct Primary election held in 114 wards across the eleven LGAs of the State with 2,024 votes beating two other contestants, Ahmed Khamisu Mailantarki who got 389 votes while Usman Aliyu Garry polled 112 votes.
Hon. Johnbull Shekarau, Chairman of the Primary Election Committee from PDP headquarters in Abuja announced the result at the State PDP Secretariat Tuesday evening.
He commended the peaceful conduct of the election which has now produced a governorship flag bearer for the party for 2027 general elections.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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