APC candidate wins Plateau by- election

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
on Sunday declared Mr Jackson Nimmwang, APC
candidate, the winner of Saturday’s Langtang South
State Constituency by-election in Plateau.
The INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Tor Iorapuu, declared
in Mabodi, that Nimmwang polled 3,688 votes to beat
his counterpart form Mega Progressives Peoples Party
(MPPP), Mr Rinsmicit Emmanuel, who scored only 83
votes.
Iorapuu said that the turn out at the election was very
low as only 13 per cent of the 48,615 registered voters
participated in the election held in 68 polling units.
He, however, described the election as “very free and
fair’’.
He said only 6,571 of the 6,631 accredited voters voted
during the election.
The by-election was sequel to a Federal High Court
judgement which invalidated the victory of Vincent
Bulus, the PDP candidate in the April 14, 2015 elections
after it was proved that he was an ex-convict.
Only APC and MPPP vied for the seat since the PDP
and its candidate were disqualified.
A total of 400 trained ad-hoc staff, drawn from NYSC
and tertiary institutions , conducted the election,
supervised by the FCT Resident Electoral Commissioner
(REC), Mr Jacob Jatau.
Commenting on the outcome, Mr Nicholas Vongsing,
Management Chairman, Lantang South Local
Government, expressed happiness that the election
went on peacefully and devoid of any rancour in the
council. (NAN)