Governor Simeon Lalong, Plateau State
The Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong has been reelected for a second term.
Professor Richard Kimbir, the Returning Officer for the election, announced this on Sunday morning at the collation centre for the governorship election in Jos, the state capital.
He said the governor, a candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was returned elected after polling the highest number of votes in the keenly contested poll.
In the results announced, Governor Lalong got a total of 595,582 votes ahead of his closest rival and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Jerry Useni, who polled 546,813 votes.
He, thereby, declared him the winner the governorship election held on March 9 in Plateau, after a two-week delay.
The Plateau State Governor Simon Lalong has been reelected for a second term.
Professor Richard Kimbir, the Returning Officer for the election, announced this on Sunday morning at the collation centre for the governorship election in Jos, the state capital.
He said the governor, a candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was returned elected after polling the highest number of votes in the keenly contested poll.
In the results announced, Governor Lalong got a total of 595,582 votes ahead of his closest rival and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Jerry Useni, who polled 546,813 votes.
He, thereby, declared him the winner the governorship election held on March 9 in Plateau, after a two-week delay.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared the governorship election in Plateau and five other states as inconclusive, after announcing winners other states where the governorship election held, asides states which include Ondo, Bayelsa, Kogi, Edo, Osun, Anambra and Ekiti where election did not hold.
Professor Kimbir announcing the results explained that the declaration, was as a result of the margin of a lead of 44,929 between the APC and the PDP candidates, which was less than the 49,377 cancelled votes.
He also explained that this was what constrained him to return a winner instead of declaring the poll inconclusive, and as a result, it necessitated the supplementary election which held in nine local government areas of the state on Saturday, March 23.
Governor Lalong defeated Mr Useni with a difference of 48,769 votes in the rerun poll.
Results of the local government areas where INEC conducted the supplementary election are pasted below:
Barkin Ladi LGA – APC: 041 PDP: 296
Jos North LGA – APC: 274 PDP: 1,036
Shendam LGA – APC: 337 PDP: 80
Bassa LGA – APC: 1,040 PDP: 367
Kanam LGA – APC: 944 PDP: 476
Pankshin LGA – APC: 446 PDP: 151
Bokkos LGA – APC: 1,342 PDP: 1,337
Mangu LGA – APC: 6,931 PDP: 3,520
Langtang South LGA – APC: 972 PDP: 1,224
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