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BREAKING: INEC declares Lalong winner of Plateau gov election

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5 years ago

March 24, 2019

Governor Simon Lalong of the All Progressives Congress has won the Plateau State governorship election , following the supplementary poll held on Saturday.
Lalong was declared the winner by the Returning Officer in the state , Prof Richard Kimbir , after scoring 595, 582 votes to defeat 23 other candidates, including the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Jeremiah Useni , who garnered 546, 813.

Kimbir stated that a total of 1 , 159, 954 valid votes were recorded while 16 , 188 were rejected , saying 1 , 176 , 142 was the total number of votes cast .

The results for the nine LGAs that took part in the supplementary poll , including Barkin Ladi , Bassa , Bokkos , Jos North, Kanam , Langtang South , Mangu, Pankshin , and Shendam , showed that Lalong scored 12 , 327 new votes , while the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party , Jeremiah Useni , earned 8 , 487. There was no cancellation of results recorded .

Lalong had scored 583, 255 votes in the March 9 poll , while Useni got 538, 326.
However , with the 44 , 929 margin of lead and the total number of cancelled votes at 49 , 377, the Returning Officer in Plateau State , Prof Richard Kimbir , had declared the election inconclusive .

Of the nine LGAs affected by the supplementary elections , results presented by election officials at the state collation centre on Sunday morning showed that Lalong won in six .

In Bassa , the APC candidate earned 1 , 040 votes against the PDP ’ s 367. Similarly , in Bokkos, Lalong had 1 , 342 votes while Useni got 1 , 337 .

The ruling party also won in Kanam with 944 votes against the PDP ’ s 476. Meanwhile , in Mangu, Lalong took 6 , 931 votes with Useni earning 3 , 520.

In the same vein , Lalong was victorious in Pankshin with 446 votes against Useni ’ s 151, while the APC earned 337 votes in Shendam trumping the PDP ’ s 80 votes .
However , Useni won Barkin Ladi with 296 votes against Lalong ’ s 41 . In Jos North, the PDP candidate also triumphed with 1 , 036 votes while the APC candidate had 274.
Similarly , Useni won in Langtang South with 1 , 224 votes against Lalong ’ s 972.