{"id":235104,"date":"2025-08-28T10:28:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/pdp-defeat-shows-voters-dissatisfaction-apc-blames-gov-lawal-over-zamfara-by-election-results\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:28:57","slug":"pdp-defeat-shows-voters-dissatisfaction-apc-blames-gov-lawal-over-zamfara-by-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/pdp-defeat-shows-voters-dissatisfaction-apc-blames-gov-lawal-over-zamfara-by-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018PDP Defeat Shows Voters\u2019 Dissatisfaction\u2019 \u2013 APC Blames Gov Lawal Over Zamfara By-election Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<h2>The All Progressives Congress (APC) Youth Congress has faulted Governor Dauda Lawal for the Peoples Democratic Party\u2019s (PDP) loss in the recent Kaura-Namoda South State Constituency by-election in Zamfara State.<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Naija News<\/strong> reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared <strong>Kamilu Sa\u2019idu<\/strong> of the APC winner with 8,182 votes, defeating PDP\u2019s Muhammad Lawal Kurya, who polled 5,544 votes.<\/p>\n<p>The election, conducted in Sakajiki and Kyambarawa polling units, was a rerun after the initial poll was declared inconclusive.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting in a statement on Wednesday, spokesperson of the APC Youth Congress,<strong> Comrade Gambo Danladi,<\/strong> dismissed PDP\u2019s allegations of electoral malpractice and military interference, insisting that the result was a direct reflection of the governor\u2019s poor performance.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cGovernor Lawal has failed to fulfill his campaign promises on security, development and economic progress. The bye-election result showed the dissatisfaction of voters, and it is the first time a sitting governor in Zamfara will lose a bye-election under his watch,<\/em>\u201d Danladi said.<\/p>\n<p>The APC youths maintained that the PDP\u2019s defeat was self-inflicted, urging the ruling party in Zamfara to accept responsibility rather than blame external factors.<\/p>\n<p>They congratulated APC\u2019s candidate, Kamilu Sa\u2019idu, on his victory, describing it as a pointer to the people\u2019s growing confidence in the opposition party.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe urge the PDP to stop the excuses and face the reality that the people are unhappy with their government,<\/em>\u201d Danladi added.<\/p>\n<p>The post &#8216;PDP Defeat Shows Voters\u2019 Dissatisfaction&#8217; &#8211; APC Blames Gov Lawal Over Zamfara By-election Results appeared first on Naija News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All Progressives Congress (APC) Youth Congress has faulted Governor Dauda Lawal for the Peoples Democratic Party\u2019s (PDP) loss in the recent Kaura-Namoda South State Constituency by-election in Zamfara State. Naija News reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Kamilu Sa\u2019idu of the APC winner with 8,182 votes, defeating PDP\u2019s Muhammad Lawal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":235105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[287,1826,251,1827],"class_list":["post-235104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-dauda-lawal","tag-pdp","tag-zamfara-bye-election"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Dauda-Lawal-Zamfara-Governor-1280x7201-1-1000x600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}