The Impartial Nationwide Meeting Fee has declared the candidate of the Individuals’s Democratic Celebration, Lt. Col. Kefas Agbu (retd), winner of final Saturday’s governorship election in Taraba State.

Agbu polled a complete of 257,926 votes to defeat his closest rival and the candidates of New Nigerian Peoples Celebration, Prof. Sani Yahaya, who obtained 202,278, and Senator Emmanuel Bwacha of All Progressives Congress who polled 141,592 votes.

The INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Muhammed Abdulaziz, who declared the outcomes stated the PDP candidate gained majority votes and glad all necessities by regulation.

Our correspondent studies that the ruling PDP had earlier raised alarm over plans to control the election end result following what they referred to as an “pointless delay within the declaration”.

In the meantime, the governor-elect Col Kefas Agbu has described his victory as a triumph of the folks’s will.

Agbu who stated that the battle was a really robust one stated that in each contest, there was sure to be a winner.

Governor Darius Ishaku in his response recommended the folks of the state for his or her help for the PDP and referred to as on them to help the incoming governor to ship on his marketing campaign guarantees.

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