Niger State Governor, Abubakar Sani Bello, of the All Progressives Party (APC) has defeated his Peoples Democratic Party opponent to win the senatorial seat of Niger North Senatorial.
Bello won with a difference of 12,044 votes to defeat the candidate of the PDP who came second.
The Returning Officer, Prof Kolo Zacchaeus, said Bello, won by scoring the highest votes of 100,197 to beat the candidate of PDP, Shehu Muhammad Abdullahi who scored 88,153 and that of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Ibrahim Wali, who got 13,886 votes.
