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- Masterweb News Desk ( Monday, December 18, 2006 ) - Send Comments - *Yar'Adua wins by a Landslide RESULTS OF PDP PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES HELD ON SATURDAY DECEMBER 16, 2006, IN ABUJA, NIGERIA. 1. Musa Yar'Adua 3,024 votes 2. Rochas Okorocha 372 votes 3 Aliyu Gusau 271 votes 4 Jerry Gana 165 votes 5. Buba Marwa 127 votes 6 Ebitu Ukiwe 17 votes 7. Mike Akhigbe 13 votes 8. Albert Horsfall 8 votes 9. Sarah Jibril 4 votes 10. Ralph Uwechue 3 votes 11. Andreas Sawa 3 votes 12 Mamman Kotangora 0 Invalid Votes 94 Total Votes 4,101
Reclusive governor wins Nigeria ruling party ticket - Nigeria's ruling party on Sunday chose a reclusive Muslim state governor, Umaru Yar'Adua, to be its candidate to succeed Olusegun Obasanjo as president of Africa's most populous nation in elections next year. Yar'Adua, the 55-year-old governor of Katsina state, beat 11 other contestants for the People's Democratic Party (PDP) ticket to run in the April vote which should mark the first fully democratic transition in Nigerian history. "I want to congratulate my brother who will be my worthy successor," Obasanjo said after the vote by 4,000 delegates which began on Saturday and ended at dawn on Sunday. Yar'Adua polled 3,024 votes with businessman Rochas Okorocha a distant second with 372. The atmosphere in the Eagle Square parade ground in the capital Abuja was....... More 
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