INEC Declears APC’s Lalong Winner Of Plateau Governorship Election

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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
standard-bearer, 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.

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