The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released results of five out of 16 local government areas for the Saturday’s governorship election held in Taraba State.
According to the results, the All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate, Senator Aisha Jummai Alhassan has polled aggregate votes of 111,964 in the five LGs; PDP’s Darius Ishaku polled 94,218 votes while SDP candidate, David Sabo Kente polled 4,059 votes so far.
Breakdown of the results include Jalingo (APC-37714; PDP-19047; SDP-1282); Ardo Kola (APC-13,042; PDP-14,041; SDP-662); Lau (APC-13,096; PDP-20,598; SDP-613); Gassol (APC-42888; PDP-12527; SDP-827) and Zing (APC-5,224; PDP-28,005; SDP-675).
Meanwhile, results for the remaining 11 local government areas are still being awaited at the INEC collation centre.
Our correspondent reports that security has been beefed up in Jalingo, the state capital as the results collations got underway.
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