The Senator Representing Katsina central, Sen Umar Ibrahim Kurfi on Thursday lost at the party’s primaries that saw the emergence of former Managing Director of Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) Engr. Kabir Barkiya as the winner.
Barkiya polled 1466 votes to defeat the sitting senator along side two others to clinch the ticket.
The results declared by Dr, Isah Adamu from the National Headquarters of the party shows that Senator Kurfi got 141 votes while the duo of Sen Ibrahim Ida and Col. Abdulaziz Yaradua rtd got 897 and 913 votes respectively just as 64 votes were declared invalid.
