Gov polls: El-Rufai, Ayade, Shehu, Bagudu, Bunu, Bello, Sule, others win vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
… Tambuwal goes to courtMORE results of Saturday’s governorship elections were released, Monday, with Governors Ben Ayade of Cross River, Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna, Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina, Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi, Abubakar Bello of Niger, and Badaru Abubakar of Jigawa handed re-election mandates.
So far, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared the election inconclusive in six states, namely: Rivers, Benue, Plateau, Adamawa, Bauchi, and Sokoto, where Governor Aminu Tambuwal has gone to court to challenge the INEC’s decision.Results are being awaited from four states – Imo, Taraba, Borno and Kano as of press time. While PDP candidates were leading in Kano,Imo and Taraba, APC candidates led in Borno.
Professor Bala concluded that the total number of rejected votes were 10,521, even as he added that the total number of votes cast during the election stood at 681,400.Although two police officers were shot and no fewer than 40,000 voters were disenfranchised in three local councils, Governor Ben Ayade, still emerged as governor-elect having won the poll in the 18 councils of the state.Ayade won with a margin of 250,323 votes.
Vanguard also gathered no fewer than 40,000 voters were disenfranchised due to violence, snatching of ballot boxes, card reader failure and sundry issues and two police officers were shot in Yakurr and Odukpani LGAs. The PDP candidate, Samuel Ortom polled 410,576 votes while the APC candidate Emmanuel Jime polled 329,022 votes.
He further alleged that Smart Card Readers were not used during the elections in a lot of polling units in Giwa, Birnin Gwari, Kaduna North, Igabi, Zaria, Lere and Ikara Local Government Areas. While giving the breakdown of the result earlier, Professor Kunduri said 560, 492 stood as the total votes cast, with 546, 391 as the total valid votes, while 14, 101 votes were rejected in the electionGovernor Darius Ishaku of the PDP, who has won in eight of the 11local councils announced at press time, in Taraba, was eyeing victory. His closest rival, Sani Danladi of the APC won in three local government areas.
Dogara in a statement by his media aide, Turaki Hassan, said: “There was no problem at all in Tafawa Balewa. The only problem they had was the final collation. If that was the only problem, one will think that the worse decision that can be taken is for them to provide the relevant collation sheet to her and say go and complete the collation and bring it in the proper sheet. But in law, anybody who is a lawyer knows that the issue of form does not defeat the issue of substance.
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