Supplementary Poll: Tambuwal, Ortom, Lalong, Ganduje Win

Abdullahi Ganduje, Aminu Tambuwal and Samuel Ortom

After a nail-biting elections and supplementary elections, incumbent governors Aminu Tambuwal, Simon Lalong, Samuel Ortom and Abdullahi Ganduje were, yesterday, declared governors-elect of Sokoto, Plateau, Benue and Kano states respectively.

However, electorate in Bauchi and Adamawa states would have to wait for a little longer to know who would governor them from May 29, because of pending court cases.

The Independent National Electoral Commission Elections (INEC) had declared elections in the six states inconclisive and ordered a supplementary polls to conclude the process.

In a dramatic photo-finish, Governor Tambuwal of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) secured a second term after he polled 512,002 to defeat Ahmed Aliyu, his erstwhile deputy and candidate of theAll Progressives Congress (APC) by 341. He got 512,002 and his challenger 511,661 votes.

The supplementary election result indicated that Tambuwal scored 22,444 votes while his opponent polled a 25,515 vote.

Prior to the declaration of the governorship election inconclusive by the returning officer, Prof. Fatima Mukhtar, Governor Tambuwal was in the lead with 489,558 votes as against the 486,145 votes by his closest rival. The election, however, ended in a stalemate as the 3,413 votes margin was far less than the cancelled votes totalling 75,403 votes.

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