#NigeriaDecides2019: Round Up of Supplementary Governorship Election Results

Following several incidents of violence and inconsistencies recorded in the gubernatorial election earlier this month, Nigerians trooped out on the March 23 in six states across the federation, as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) conducted supplementary polls for states where the original election was deemed inconclusive.

While the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) accused each other of planning to rig or militarize the election, the supplementary polls were still held.

While Adamawa’s supplementary governorship polls have been suspended indefinitely, based on a court order, INEC has gone on to declare winners in the other states.

Here’s a quick run down of the results:

Benue State

In the food basket of the nation, the incumbent governor and PDP candidate, Samuel Ortom, was re-elected for a second term.

According to the state’s Returning Officer, Professor Maimako Sebastian, who announced the result on Sunday, Ortom pulled in 434, 473 votes against his main rival and APC candidate, Emmanuel Jime’s 345,155 votes. The margin between both candidates was recorded as 89,318 votes

The state’s original election on March 9 was tagged inconclusive as a result of the gap between the cancelled votes, 121,019 and the winning margin of only 81,554 votes.

Kano State

In what has been dubbed the most controversial state in this year’s election, Kano State’s polls have been marred by violence and electoral malpractice. At the end of collation for the state’s governorship polls, the APC candidate and current governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, won his second term bid with 1,033,695 votes as opposed to Abba Yusuf’s 1,024,713 votes.

A close call for both parties with only 9,000 votes between them.

The PDP has, however, issued a statement rejecting the outcome of the election.

Plateau State

In Plateau State, another second term bid was secured as the APC candidate and incumbent governor, Solomon Lalong, won the vote.

In an announcement by the state’s Returning Officer, Professor Richard Kimbir, Lalong won with 595,582 votes, defeating PDP’s Jeremiah Useni, who polled 546,813 votes.

During the March 9 elections, the governor received 583,255 votes, while Useni polled 538,326 votes.

However, the electoral umpire was forced to declare the elections inconclusive based on the 44,929 margin of lead and the total number of cancelled votes of 49,377.

Sokoto State

Recording the slimmest margin of all the candidates, the PDP flag bearer and Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, secured his re-election bid with 512, 002 votes, while APC’s Ahmed Aliyu came in second place with a margin of 341 votes, polling 511,661.

During the collation of results from the March 9 polls, Tambuwal was still in the lead with 489,558 votes, while Ahmed Aliyu was a close second with 486,145 votes, before the results were declared inconclusive.

Bauchi State

While the state might have suffered a setback as the absence of its Returning Officer resulted in a late collation process, PDP candidate, Bala Mohammed, eventually won the governorship race with 6,376 votes.

He won the elections over the APC candidate and incumbent governor, Muhammed Abubakar, who polled 5,117 votes at the end of the supplementary polls.

The commission is yet to give full details on its plan for Rivers and Adamawa states.  

Conrad Omodiagbe

Conrad is a reporter and associate editor at TheElectionNetwork.com
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