Bala Mohammed Defeats Former Air Chief, Reelected Bauchi Gov

VOICE AIR MEDIA News Update

THE incumbent Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been declared the winner of Saturday’s governorship election in the State.

THE INEC returning officer, Professor Abdulkarim Sabo Mohammed, at the State Collation Centre, declared Mohammed the winner of the election on Monday after polling 525,280 votes.

Mohammed won over 13 local government areas out of the 19 LGA results in the State.

He defeated the candidate of the major opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), Air Marshal Sadique Baba Abubakar (rtd), who won in only six local government areas of the State, and scored 283,000 votes.

Officially, eight of the 11 governors who sought reelection in the March 18 polls held across Nigeria in West Africa have been declared winners by INEC to return to office for another four-year term each.

They are Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State, Governor Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State, Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State, Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State and Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State.

Also, five newcomers have won governorship elections in the country — Umo Eno in Akwa Ibom State, Umar Namadi in Jigawa State, Dikko Radda in Katsina State, and Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto in Sokoto State.

Of the 13 winners declared so far in the March 18 governorship poll, nine of them belong to the ruling party, the APC, three are members of the PDP and one is a member of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP). The election in Kebbi was declared inconclusive by the electoral body.

Of the 28 states, 11 serving governors sought reelection while 17 outgoing governors are in the final weeks of their constitutional two-term limits of eight years, having been sworn in on May 29, 2015.