Election results of the ongoing Election rerun have started coming in from different polling units where the elections took place in the 11 affected States.
Naija News respots that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Nigeria’s electoral umpire, conducted the election at exactly 8 am on Saturday, January 25 amidst tight security.
This online news platform recalls that INEC had said that the rerun and supplementary polls will be held in 11 of the country’s 36 states, one of the 109 senatorial zones, 12 federal constituencies and 15 state constituencies.
INEC had said that it will be supplementary polls in some parts of 22 constituencies while the elections will be repeated in all parts of six constituencies.
The eleven states where the elections took place are Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Benue, Cross River, Imo, Kaduna, Kano, Niger, Ogun, and Sokoto States.
Abia election rerun results
Mike Ukaoha, the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has been declared the winner of the Arochukwu state constituency election.
After collating the results of the rerun election, Prof. Austin Uwakwe, the Returning officer, announced that the APGA candidate polled 6550 votes to defeat the PDP candidate who polled 5129 votes.
Arochukwu state constituency election
APGA – 6550 votes
PDP – 5129 votes.
Bauchi election rerun results:
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Auwal Jatau, has been declared the winner of the rerun election of Zaki Local Government Federal Constituency of Bauchi State, which held on Saturday.
Naija News reports that Zaki Local Government Federal Constituency has 1,663 registered eligible voters.
Declaring the result of the rerun that took place in four voting points in three polling units in Gamawa LGA, the Returning Officer, Professor Ahmed Kutama, said Jatau got a total of 782 votes to defeat his closest rival from the APC, Tata, who got 401 votes.
PDP – 782 votes
APC – 401 votes.
Cross River rerun election results
EKUREKU Live UPDATES
Emege Polling Unit
APC: 809
PDP: 26
Akpoha Polling Unit
APC: 548
PDP: 3
Akarafor Polling Unit
APC: 942
PDP: 8.
PLEASE REFRESH ALWAYS FOR FRESH RESULTS
source https://www.naijanews.com/2020/01/26/live-updates-election-rerun-results-from-11-affected-states/
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