The Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee on Sunday declared the Home of Representatives by-elections of Jalingo, Yorro and Zing to be inconclusive.
The Returning Officer for the Elections, Prof. Daniel Ayuba, disclosed this after collating the outcomes of the three Native Authorities Councils that constituted the constituency in Jalingo.
Ayuba stated whereas the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Get together PDP, Alhaji Tafida Sadiq, scored a complete of 17,214 votes, the candidate of the Social Democratic Get together SDP, Mr. Harmless Jabayang, who got here first second, scored 15,537 votes. bringing the distinction between the duo to 1,677.
“Within the present electoral legislation, there’s a precept that states that if the margin of victory is lower than the entire variety of PVCs collected within the areas the place the elections have been canceled, the outcomes can’t be declared and everybody who is said returns.
“In line with the calculation now we have made and the outcomes accessible to us, the margin of victory is smaller than the entire variety of PVCs collected within the areas the place the elections didn’t happen or had been canceled, which is 14,759.
Consequently, the elections are inconclusive and there could be a replay within the respective areas between the candidate with probably the most votes and the primary runner-up.”
Our correspondent stories that the elections had been held within the constituency on Saturday to fill the vacuum left by the demise of Ismaila Maihanchi, who received the February 2023 common elections, which happened earlier than the swearing-in of the tenth Nationwide Meeting.
