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INEC Declares PDP's Ishaku Winner Of Taraba Governorship Election

Posted by Victor on Tue 12th Mar, 2019 - tori.ng

INEC has officially declared the candidate of the PDP, Darius Ishaku, as the winner of the 2019 governorship election held on Saturday in Taraba State.

Darius Ishaku

The incumbent Governor of Taraba State and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Darius Ishaku, has been declared winner of the last Saturday’s governorship election in the state.

Ishaku polled a total of 520,432 voted to beat his closest rival and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Sani Abubakar Danladi, who polled 362,735 votes.

The State Collation Officer, Prof. Shehu Iya, declared the results at the INEC Headquarters in Jalingo on Tuesday morning.

Iya said, “The Governor having polled the highest number of votes and also satisfied other requirements of the law, has been declared winner of the governorship election held in Taraba state on the 9th of March, 2019, and is hereby returned elected”.