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Sen Aishatu Dahiru: All you need to know about the only female gov candidate for APC
In an impressive primary election contest, a female Senator Aisha Dahiru Ahmed Binani, beat six male aspirants and political heavyweights to secure the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship ticket in Adamawa State.
The election committee chairman, Malam Gambo, declared Binani the winner, after scoring 430 votes, the highest in the election to defeat Nuhu Ribadu, a former presidential aspirant of the Action Congress and pioneer chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), who polled 288 votes.
Umar Mustapha Madawaki and Wafarniyi Theman respectively clinched a fifth and sixth positions in the contest.
Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed was born on 11 August 1971. She is a serving senator of the All Progressives Congress APC representing Adamawa Central senatorial district in the 9th Assembly.
Aishatu had her university education in the UK, where she obtained a Higher National Diploma in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southampton.
She is currently the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).