Senator Bala Mohammed of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has emerged
the governor-elect of Bauchi state, polling 515,113 votes to defeat the
incumbent governor, Alhaj Mohammed Abubakar of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
who scored 500,625 votes.
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| Senator Bala Mohammed |
Bala won with 14,488 votes in another tight governorship race.
The governorship election in the
state had earlier been ruled as inconclusive by INEC and March 23 fixed
for re-rerun poll in Tafawa Balewa local government area and some
polling units in some other local government areas of the State.
INEC later reversed itself as it ordered the collation of the
results. This followed a fact-finding report by a panel led by an INEC
commissioner Festus Okoye.
But Governor Abubakar challenged INEC’s volte-face in an Abuja High Court.
The court initially ruled to stall INEC’s action, but on Monday, the court gave INEC the go-ahead to conclude the collation.
The Returning Officer, Professor Mohammed Kyari declared Bala
Mohammed, a former senator and minister of the Federal Capital Territory
as the winner of the election on Monday night.
“Bala Mohammed having scored the highest votes and satisfied all the
requirements of the law is hereby declared winner of the Governorship
election in the state”, he said.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdullahi appealed to politicians to take defeat in good faith.
“In any contest there will be a winner and a loser”. He urged the politicians not to gloat in victory.
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