candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Darius Ishaku winner
of the Taraba governorship election.
Mr Ishaku polled 369,318 votes to beat his closest opponent and
candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen Aisha Alhassan,
who polled 275,984 votes.
There were reports of sporadic shooting at one of the collation
centres in Takum Local Government Area of the State, when the
supplementary elections were held on Saturday.
No number of casualties have been reported.
Channels Television's correspondent, Yemi Kosoko, said the gunshots
were heard after elections have been held.
"News just filtered in that there is a problem in collation centre in
Takum where the results of elections held in the local council were
being collated. There was sporadic shooting at the collation centre.
"Apart from that, there are no other incidents reported so far," he said.
The supplementary election held in three registration areas in the
local council, where the April 11 elections were declared
inconclusive.
--ChannelsTV
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