Immediate past Commissioner for Trade and Cooperative, and Candidate of
the All Progressives Congress, APC, Talatu Yohanna , has emerged winner of the
re-run election for Demsa/Numan/Lamurde federal constituency, Adamawa State,
held weekend. Yohanna defeated five
other contenders in the contest. A court of Appeal in Abuja had annulled the
election of Kwamoti La’ori of the then Social Democratic Party, SDP and ordered
a re-run within 90 days excluding his party, SDP.
This forced Loari to cross carpet to Kowa Party and
subsequently emerged its candidate. Declaring the results yesterday in Numan,
the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, constituency returning
officer, Dr. Pascal Timtere, announced that Yohanna of APC polled 24,126 votes,
Micheal Zidon of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, got 11,513 votes, and
Kabiru Garba of the CPP, Citizen Peoples Party scored 222 votes.
However,
Bitrus Alkali of the Kowa Party had 400 votes, Dr. P.P Power of the People Democratic
Movement, PDM, scored 6,320 votes while Anslem Olam of Labour Party, LP polled
154 votes respectively.
Dr. Timtere thereafter declared and returned Hon,
Talatu Yohanna of APC, haven scored the highest number of votes cast in the
constituency (Demsa/Lamurde/Numan Constituency) winner of the contest.
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