APC wins Lagos East as INEC declares Zamfara bye-election inconclusive, 2 ad-hoc staff missing
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Tokunbo Abiru, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress as winner of the Lagos East senatorial bye-election conducted in the state on Saturday.
INEC announced that Abiru obtained a total of 89,204 votes to defeat his closest opponent, Babatunde Gbadamosi of the Peoples Democratic Party. Gbadamosi secured a total of 11,257 votes to emerge second.
Abiru won in all the five local government areas in the senatorial district.
Meanwhile, INEC has declared the state Assembly bye-election conducted in Bakura constituency in Zamfara State on Saturday as inconclusive.
Similarly, two ad-hoc staff of the commission have been declared missing and their whereabouts were still unknown at the time of filing in this report.
Addressing journalists today, the returning Officer Professor Ibrahim Magawata, said, “the election results of five polling units in Bakura ward have been cancelled”.
The affected units, according to Professor Magawata, have a total number of 11,429 votes.
He however declared that, so far, the PDP candidate, Alhaji Ibrahim Tudu, has scored the total number of 18645 votes, while the APC candidate, Alhaji Bello Dankande Gamji scored 16464 votes.
“A new date for the conclusion of the election for the affected polling units would be announced later,” he added
