Governor Simon Lalong of the All Progressives Congress has been declared the winner by the governorship election in the state.
He won after the Saturday rerun, with the Returning Officer, Prof Richard Kimbir, announcing that he polled 595,582 votes to defeat the closest rival, the Peoples Democratic Party standard-bearer, Jeremiah Useni, who garnered 595,582.
Kimbir stated that a total of 1,159,954 valid votes were recorded while 16,188 were rejected, saying 1,176,142 was the total number of votes cast.
The results for the nine LGAs that took part in the supplementary poll, including Barkin Ladi, Bassa, Bokkos, Jos North, Kanam, Langtang South, Mangu, Pankshin and Shendam, showed that Lalong scored 12,327 new votes, while the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Jeremiah Useni, earned 8,487. There was no cancellation of results recorded.
Lalong had scored 583,255 votes in the March 9 poll, while Useni got 538,326.
