{"id":70175,"date":"2023-03-20T19:35:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T18:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=70175"},"modified":"2023-03-20T19:35:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T18:35:31","slug":"inec-declares-apc-guber-candidate-hon-umaru-mohd-bago-as-niger-governor-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/inec-declares-apc-guber-candidate-hon-umaru-mohd-bago-as-niger-governor-elect\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC Declares APC Guber Candidate, Hon. Umaru Moh&#8217;d Bago As Niger Governor Elect\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"H_1BObGP iz_FF\" data-test-id=\"message-group-content\" data-touch-scroll-enabled=\"true\">\n<div class=\"k_w jb_7ceA d_93qVS D_F ek_BB\">\n<div class=\"U_fq7 em_N\" data-test-id=\"message-card\">\n<div class=\"U_6MGW\">\n<div data-test-id=\"message-view-body\">\n<div class=\"msg-body P_wpofO iy_A\" data-test-id=\"message-view-body-content\">\n<div class=\"jb_0 X_6Fd5 N_6Fd5\">\n<div data-test-id=\"message-body\">\n<div id=\"yiv0760429328\">\n<div>National Electoral Commission INEC has declared the Governorship Candidate of All progressive congress (APC), Hon. Muhammed Umaru Bago as the winner of the\u00a0 March 18th,2023\u00a0 Governorship election in Niger State.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The state Returning\u00a0 Officer of the Governorship Election in the State,\u00a0 Professor Clement Alawa, the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Academics, University of Abuja announced the results at the INEC state headquarters in Minna.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The\u00a0 returning officer\u00a0 announced that, Hon.Muhammad Umar Bago of\u00a0 APC\u00a0 scored 469, 896 to defeat\u00a0 his closest challenger, Hon . Isah Liman Kantigi of the\u00a0 Peoples Democratic Party( PDP)\u00a0 who scored\u00a0 387, 476 votes .<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Labour party Candidate, Mr. Joshua Bawa\u00a0 came a distant third osition with 3, 415 votes while, Ibrahim Yahaya of New Nigeria peoples Party(NNPP) came fourth with 3, 378 votes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The APC Governorship candidate won in 21 out of the 25 local government Areas of Niger State,\u00a0 while his PDP Counterpart won in four council areas namely Edati, Mokwa, Lavun and Gbako local government Areas.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In his acceptance speech, the Niger State Governor elect, Hon. Umaru Mohammed Bago\u00a0 appreciated Nigerlites for finding him worthy and gave him their mandate, to become the Niger State Governor.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bago in his acceptance speech after receiving final results of the election by the party&#8217;s representative Alhaji Nma Kolo, called on the opposition party members in the state to eschew all Political differences and make Niger State a focus for progress.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Governor elect appreciates,his counterpart from the PDP, in the just concluded Governorship election in the state, Hon. Isah Liman Kantigi who conceded defeat for showing sporit of sportsmanship by accepting the outcome of the election in good faith<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He thereby\u00a0 implored his followers to avoid provocative jubilation as he is going to run an all inclusive governance in the state in the next four years.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Electoral Commission INEC has declared the Governorship Candidate of All progressive congress (APC), Hon. 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