APC Wins Gombe Presidential Election

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress has won in the just concluded presidential election result announced in Gombe State, scoring 361,245 votes against the Peoples Democratic Party's 96,873. Professor Saminu Abdulrahman Ibrahim of ATBU, Bauchi announced the results at about 5:00pm Monday. A breakdown of the results indicates that the opposition won in 8 out of the 11 local governments that make up the state. Saminu Abdulrahman Ibrahim, the collation officer said there were 1,110,105 total numbers of registered voters. He said there were a total of 460,599 valid votes out of which it recorded 473,444 total votes cast with 12,845 rejects. Meanwhile, the state capital has remained calm after the announcement of the result with people going about their normal activities.