The candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Umar Mohammed Bago, has received the governorship election in Niger State.

Life-style Nigeria studies that the state collation officer, Professor Clement Allawa, introduced the consequence on Monday in Minna.

Allawa stated Bago received in 20 of the 25 Native Authorities Areas and polled a complete of 469,896 votes.

“I, Professor Clement Allawa, hereby certify that I’m the Returning Officer for the 2023 governorship election that was contested on March 18, 2023.”

“I declare that Umar Mohammed Bago of the APC having happy the necessities of the regulation is hereby declared the winner of the 2023 governorship election in Niger State.”

He acknowledged that the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Get together who was the closest rival of the APC candidate, Isah Liman Kantigi, received in 5 native authorities areas with 387,476 votes.

He additionally introduced that the candidate of the New Nigeria Folks’s Get together, Yahaya Mohammed got here third with a complete of three, 378 votes whereas the one feminine candidate within the election Khadijat Abdulahi who contested underneath the platform of the All Progressive Grand Alliance polled 1, 746 votes.

He added that the entire variety of accredited voters was 899, 488 whereas he gave the variety of votes forged as 889, 956.