Umaru Appeals To Supporters As INEC Declares Poll Inconclusive

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Niger East by-election, Barr. David Umaru, yesterday said the party would not be deterred by the irregularities that marred the Saturday by-election and would mobilise for the September 6 supplementary election.

Addressing journalists yesterday, he said that the party would not boycott the re-run, but would mobilise members to come out en masse for a landslide victory next Saturday against all odds.
Umaru said he was optimistic that he would be victorious at the next Saturday’s by-election, and   called on his teeming supporters not to despair.

Earlier, the Niger East Senatorial by-election was declared inconclusive by the independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leading in the interim result released.

The INEC national commissioner that supervised the election, Dr Chris Ehimoga, and the returning officer, Prof Wole Morenikeji, when making the announcement at the collation centre, College of Education Minna, said that the interim result showed that the APC scored 84,689 votes, APGA 2,099 votes, PDP 89,640 votes and SDP 460 votes.

Morenikeji said that the rerun would take place in some units in six out of the nine local government councils of the senatorial district.

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