INEC Declares Bala Mohammed Winner Of Bauchi Governorship Election

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared former FCT minister and candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Bala Mohammed the winner of the governorship election in Bauchi State.

Bala Mohammed defeated the incumbent governor, Muhammed Abubakar who is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC)

 The result was announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission  on Monday night, Mohammed,  polled a total of 515,113 votes to defeat Governor Abubabakar who got 500,625 votes.

According to the results,  Mohammed had a landslide victory in seven local government areas out of the 20 in the state while Abubabakar on the other hand, won in 13 LGAs with slimmer margins.

The state Returning Officer, Prof. Kyari Mohammed, who announced the result at exactly 11.18pm on Monday said, “I, Prof. Kyari Mohammed, declare that I was the Returning Officer of the election in Bauchi State and that Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed of the PDP, have satisfied the requirements of the law and having scored the highest number of votes is hereby declared winner and is returned elected.”

INEC, had resumed the collation of results of the Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of the state on Monday afternoon, after a Federal High Court Abuja vacated an order, which it gave on March 19.

The court had ordered INEC to halt the collation of the results of the local government.

But on Monday, it gave INEC the leeway to continue the collation of the results, which the commission resumed at 4pm.