The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Halliru Jika, has emerged winner of Saturday’s election for Bauchi Central Senatorial District.
Announcing the result in Darazo town on Monday, the
Returning Officer, Usman Elnafaty, said the winner polled 120,871 votes
to defeat contestants of two other political parties.
Candidates
of other political parties that contested with him were Bappah Aliyu of
Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), who polled 66,024 votes and Isa Hamma of
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who garnered 57,069 votes.
The
Bauchi Central Senatorial District comprises of six Local Government
Areas of Ganjuwa, Darazo, Misau, Dambam, Ningi and Warji.
Meanwhile,
some domestic observers who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
in Darazo, Kabir Danbaiwa and Said Ahmed, have attributed the delay in
the collation of results to the inefficiency of some collation officers.
They, however, commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), for adequate provision of electoral materials and logistics, which had resulted in the peaceful conduct of the elections in Bauchi State.
(NAN)
Source:- Premiumtimesng
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