Nigeria, May 17 -- The House of Representatives primaries of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna State have returned several sitting lawmakers, consensus candidates and political heavyweights for the 2027 general elections.

Among the winners are the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, former federal lawmaker Samaila Suleiman, and Sadiq Abdullahi, son of elder statesman and former Vice-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Ango Abdullahi.

The results were announced on Saturday at the APC state secretariat in Kaduna by Yakubu Hosseini, chairman of the House of Representatives Primary Election Committee.

Mr Hosseini said the exercise was conducted in accordance with the APC constitution and electoral...