INEC declares APC’s Abdullahi Sule winner of Nasarawa guber election
- Engr Abdullahi Sule of the APC has been declared winner of the Nasarawa governorship election by INEC
- The returning officer said Sule polled a total of 327,229 votes to defeat other opponents in the election
- The collation agent of the PDP, however, refused to sign the result, stating that several complaints made by his party over the conduct of the exercise was ignored by INEC
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Engr Abdullahi Sule of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the Saturday, March 9 governorship election in Nasarawa state.
Prof Abdullahi Bala, returning officer for the election announced Sule as governor-elect on Monday, March 11 in Lafia after the collation of results from the 13 local government areas of the state, NAN reports.
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Legit.ng gathers that Bala said the APC candidate polled a total of 327,229 votes to defeat other opponents in the election.
According to him, David Ombugadu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scored 184,281 votes, while Labaran Maku of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) polled a total of 132,784 votes at the election.
He said 686,303 voters were accredited and 681,400 cast their ballots during the election.
Bala further explained that 670,879 of the votes cast were valid while 10,521 were rejected.
The result indicated that APC won in 11 out of the 13 local government areas of the state while Maku of APGA and Umar Aliyu Doma of Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) won in Nasarawa Eggon and Doma local government areas respectively.
Meanwhile, the collation agent of the PDP, Yakubu Dauda, refused to sign the result.
According to him, there were several complaints brought by his party to INEC over the conduct of the exercise but were ignored.
On his part, Aliyu Bello, the APC agent, said the outcome of the election was not surprising given the track record of the party in the state under Governor Umaru Al-Makura.
“The result of the election is a payback by the people of the state for the great work done by Al-Makura and the APC," he said.
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that INEC declared Governor Abubakar Sani Bello of the APC winner of Saturday’s governorship election in Niger state.
The result was announced on Sunday night, March 10, in Minna at the state collation centre by the returning officer, Prof Angela Miri.
Miri who is the vice chancellor of the Federal University Lokoja, said Gov.Bello of APC scored 526,412 votes, while Umar Nasko of PDP polled 298,065 votes.
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