INEC declares APC’s Abdullahi Sule Governor-elect in Nasarawa
Announcing the results of last Saturday’s governorship election at 12:52am on Monday, the state’s INEC Collation Officer and Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Technology, Minna, Professor Abdullahi Bala said Engineer Abdullahi Sule scored 327,229 votes to defeat 28 other candidates who took part in the poll.According to the INEC official, Sule defeated the candidate of PDP, a 41-year-old House of Representatives member, David Umbugadu who polled 184,281 votes to come second.
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