Katsina State governor, Aminu Masari, has expressed optimism that the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Dikko Radda, will emerge victorious.
Mr Masari was speaking to journalists Wednesday afternoon when he visited President Muhammadu Buhari at his private residence in Daura, Katsina State, to congratulate the president on the victory of the APC in the presidential election.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Bola Tinubu of the APC as the president-elect Wednesday morning.
Mr Tinubu lost Katsina State to the PDP.
The closed-door meeting lasted for about an hour.
Briefing journalists after the meeting, the governor said he met with the president to review the preparations of the APC for the governorship elections with the president.
“He (Buhari) is more than delighted first of all for APC to have won this presidential election and in a peaceful manner, like I said in Katsina we had the elections…
