……As Lau Retains Seat
By Ogechi Okorie
Jalingo and parts of Taraba State have erupted in jubilation following the declaration of the Taraba south senatorial district election result where the candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC wins the state governor Darius Ishaku in a landslide victory.
The returning officer for the senatorial election Professor Adeyeye Solomon who announced the results in Wukari, said that the candidate of the APC scored a total of 85,415 votes to defeat governor Darius Ishaku of the PDP who got 45,708 votes.
The results from the various local government areas that make up the zone indicate that the APC candidate David Jim Kuta scored 17,607 in Donga local government area while PDP’s Ishaku scored 10,492.
The APC got 13,087 votes as against
PDP’s 8,092 in Ibi, 22,246 against 4,098 in Ussa/YSDA, 20,892 as against 12,988 in Wukari and 11,581 votes as against 9,640 from Takum.
The APC candidate wins in all the local government areas including the governor’s home town of Takum.
Meanwhile, the Senate Deputy Minority leader Senator Shu’aibu Isa Lau has been declared winner of the just concluded Taraba North Senatorial elections.
Taraba North comprises of Jalingo, Lau, Karim- Lamido, Zing, Yorro and Ardo-kola Local Government areas.
The returning officer for Taraba Northern Senatorial District election, Professor Chibiya Paul Chingu, DVC Central Administration, Federal University, Wukari said the candidate returned elected with total number of Seventy Four Thousand Six Hundred and Forty Five (74,645) votes to defeat his opponent Sani Abubakar Danladi who scored Sixty One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy Eight (61,878) votes.
Lau is the first winner of the senatorial contest in the state who is declared by INEC in the state.
