Mr Zulum expressed optimism that indigenes of Borno and other states in the North-East who were willing to return would be re-established.
Mr Zulum, who dissolved his cabinet in May on June 14, sent the list of 20 nominees, including 17 former commissioners, to the legislature.
Ms Dauda said the extremist group had threatened before the escape that she would be hunted down and killed if she deserted.
Mr Lawan did not participate in the primary. Bashir Machina, who contested the primary and won, has been challenging the party’s determination to misappropriate his mandate.
Mr Onyeuko said that the troops had on June 12, encountered the terrorists while clearing their enclave in Gazuwa in Bama Local Government Area of Borno.
The ruling party appeared to have relied on a clause that mandated primary contenders to withdraw from a race voluntarily or be arbitrarily substituted by the party.
The Borno Police Command says it has arrested 80-year-old Saleh Bukar for allegedly defiling an 11-year-old girl.
The police commissioner said that a suspected notorious kidnapper was also arrested by a team of local hunters at Norkoli village in Chibok Local Government Area.
The military said that the troops of 26 Task Force Brigade on patrol around Ngoshe, in Borno on Tuesday, intercepted Ms Ngoshe and her son.
