The APC governorship candidate polled 526,412 votes to defeat his closest opponent, Umar Nasko of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who polled a total of 298,065 votes.
The Returning Officer, Professor
Angela Miri, announced the result at the INEC collation centre in
Minna, the state capital, saying Governor Bello was declared the winner
and returned elected having polled the highest votes in the election.
Earlier,
there was a mild drama at the collation centre as some PDP women
supporters numbering about 20 stormed the centre to demand that the
results be canceled.
They described the results as a scam,
alleging that the figures had been manipulated to favour the ruling APC.
They accused the APC of stealing their mandate and insisted that
justice must be done.
They also asked the PDP State Chairman,
Tanko Beji, to reject the results by refusing to append his signature to
the final result sheet.
In what looked like a response to the
protesters’ demand, Mr. Beji who had been on the ground to monitor the
process left the centre without signing the final result sheet.
Meanwhile,
results presented by the various local government electoral officers
showed that the APC won all the 25 local government areas in the
governorship election.
The party also won 21 state House of Assembly seats declared, with the winners of the remaining 6 seats yet to be announced, at the time of filing this report.
Source:- Channelstv
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