INEC Rescinds Decision on Yobe South Supplementary Election, Declares Senatorial Result
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has has made a u-turn on its earlier decision to conduct supplementary election bill and declared Senator Ibrahim Mohammed Bomoi as winner of the Yobe south Senatorial election which was earlier declared inconclusive.
The Yobe South supplementary election is billed to take place this Saturday.
The electoral umpire had on February 27, 2023 declared the Yobe South senatorial district’s election as inconclusive over the cancellation of a polling unit at Manawaci in Fika local government area of the district, necessitated by over-voting that exceeded the margin between the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who scored 69,417 votes and that of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 68,800 votes.
The returning officer of the senatorial district, Dr Abatcha Melemi of the Federal University, Gashua, while declaring the results in Potiskum, said Bomoi emerged winner after scoring 69,596 votes to defeat his closest contender of the PDP Abubakar Halilu who scored 68,885.
“My mandate in this exercise is just to declare the results and return the elected candidate for Yobe South Senatorial dictrict.
“I hereby certify that I am the returning officer for the 2023 Yobe South Senatorial dictrict election held on the 15th of April, 2023.
“The election was contested and the candidates received the following votes, Yarima Adamu Adamu of the ADC 652, Bomoi Ibrahim Mohammed 69,596, Jauro Ishaku Habila of LP 471, Isa Yunusa of NNPP 3,277, Abubakar Halilu of PDP 68,885, Maisambo Barde of YPP 448.
“Bomoi Ibrahim Mohammed of APC having satisfied the requirements of the law is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” he said.
