The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Senator Ibrahim Mohammed Bomai winner of the Yobe south senatorial election.
Bomai polled 69,596 votes to defeat his closest rival, Halilu Mazagane of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who got 68,885.
Declaring the results at the collation center,FCE T Potiskum, the INEC Returning Officer, Abacha Meleni stated that “I, Abacha Meleni, Returning Officer for the 2023 Yobe South Senatorial District Election, held 15th April, 2023, that Bomai Ibrahim Mohammed of the APC having satisfied the requirements of the law, is hereby declared winner, and is returned elected.”
It would be recalled that INEC had earlier declared the election in the zone inconclusive, resulting from over voting at Manawachi polling unit in the Fika Local Government Area of the state.
