Taraba State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Darius Dickson Ishaku, has won the Election in the state. Ishaku won 10 local government areas with accumulated votes of 369,318 at the end of the supplementary election on Saturday. At the commission's office in Jalingo on Sunday, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Returning Officer for Taraba State, Prof. Ahmed Kyari declared Ishaku as governor-elect. His closest rival, Aisha Jummai Alhassan of the All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 275,984 votes. Ishaku won with a difference of 93,334 votes. Candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) came a distant third with 29,985 votes.
