by Ranti Joseph
Well Mama Taraba lost the election after all as Daruis Ishaku of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has won the Taraba supplementary governorship election held on Saturday.
The Returning Officer, Kyari Mohammed, who announced the result on Sunday in Jalingo, said Ishaku scored 369,318 votes to emerge victorious.
He said Aisha Alhassan of the All Progressives Congress (APC) came second with 275,984 votes, while David Kente of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), polled 29, 966 votes.
Mohammed said there were 1,461,645 total registered voters in the state, of which 787,516 were accredited for the election.
Mohammed said that the total valid votes cast were 681,166, while the total votes rejected was 174,131.
The APC agent, Gambo Umar, however, rejected the result stating that the party would challenge it in court.
On his part, the PDP agent, Rebo Usman, said, “This is a well-deserved victory.”
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