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The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Gov. Aminu Tambuwal winner, of the governorship election, after Saturday’s supplementary poll. He won by a small margin of 342 votes,
” PDP candidate, Aminu Tambuwal having scored the highest votes in the election, is hereby declared winner and returned elected according to law” Mukhtar said. The election then was declared inconclusive because the vote difference between Tambuwal and his challenger was lower than the cancelled votes.Total number of valid votes was 1,036,332 and the total number of rejected votes was 31, 662. The number of total votes cast was 1, 067, 994, Mukhtar said.
She further explained that 49 candidates from other participating parties shared the remaining votes cast.
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