Hon Umar Bago of APC declared winner of Niger state Guber election.
Hon Umar Muhammad Bago of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been declared the winner of Saturday’s governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday.
Hon Umar Bago secured a total of 469,896 votes against his main challengers Alhaji Isa Liman Kantigi of the People Democratic Party (PDP ) who polled 387,476 and Mr Joshua Bawa salka of the LP who got 3,415 votes.
INEC Returning officer, Professor Clement Arawa who announced the result said Hon Umar Mohammed Bago who scored the highest votes is hereby returned and declared the winner today the 20/3/2023.
Total valid votes: 873,020
Registered voters: 2,698,344
Rejected votes: 16,936
Accredited voters: 899,488
Total votes cast: 889,956
Votes scored by each political party :-
A 140
AA 471
ADC 665
ADP 2001
APC 469,896
APM 351
APP 167
LP 3,415
NNPP 3,378
NRM 969
PDP 387,476
SDP 908
YPP 445
