The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced Usman Gorau, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), House of Representatives candidate in Gada-Goronyo Federal Constituency, winner after he polled 29, 679 votes to defeat his closest rival and the incumbent lawmaker, Musa Adar of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who scored 25,549 to to lose his fifth-term bid.
The Informant247 gathered that the 33-year-old is a former Senate President and National Vice President of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, SSA on Students Matters, and Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Sokoto State.
In a Facebook post, Gorau thanked God for facilitating his victory at the polls.
“Say to Allah, the sovereign of the Kingdom: You give the kingdom to whomever You will, and You remove the kingdom from whomever You want, and You honor whom You will, and You humiliate whom You will. With Your hand is good. Indeed, you are above all,” he wrote.
