After queueing and loitering around the voting premises for close to three hours, the APC candidate in the ongoing Katsina North senatorial district by-election, Ahmad Babba-Kaita has been unable to cast his vote.

But he vowed he would be ready to offer his blood to win.

Mr Babba-Kaita, a member of the House of Representatives, arrived the Bakin Kasua Primary School, PU 005 at about 12.15 p.m. but by 3.10 p.m. when he left, he had not voted.

He had left the queue after about an hour of standing to sit under a shade, only to return some minutes to 2 p.m.

By 2.49 p.m. when it was just his turn, Mr Baba-Kaita left again to the surprise of electoral officers and dissatisfaction of a PDP agent who fumed at the development.

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Addressing journalists, Mr Baba-Kaita harped on the need for the APC to have more senators in the Senate to be able to carry out the manifesto of the party.

He added that he was not worried by the spate of defections within the party.

“The aim of our great party and great president is to make sure we have enough number within the Senate to be able to push for the campaign promises of the APC government and by extension President Muhammadu Buhari.

“I wouldn’t lose my sleep on it (Defections). Not at all. It’s the season. Most of the people decamping, go back to their wards, you’ll find out that their political ward is empty, nearly empty. They don’t have any political value, they don’t have any ticket. The only way they could make noise is to decamp from one party to another.

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