THE Presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, beats his close contenders, Atiku Abubakar and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to emerge winner of the Saturday presidential election in Plateau State.
Obi who scored the total number of four hundred and sixty-six thousand, two hundred and seventy-two (466,272) votes, defeated the candidate of the ruling party, Ahmed Tinubu who had a total number of three hundred and seven thousand, one hundred and ninety-five (307,195) votes.
The Presidential Candidate of People’s Democratic Party, (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who scored the total number of two hundred and forty- three thousand, eight hundred and eight (243,808) votes came third after winning only two out of the17 local government areas in the state.
The Labour Party won thirteen out of the seventeen local governments of the state, while its close contending parties (APC and PDP) won two local governments each.
The election was peaceful except for Jos-North LGA where thugs invaded the collation centre forcing the local government Collation Officer, Prof. Maigoro, to reconcile figures together with parties’ agents at the INEC office in Jos.
Declaring the results of the Presidential Election at the INEC Headquarters in Jos, the Presidential Returning Officer of Plateau State, Professor Shehu Abdulraman, who is the Vice Chancellor of Federal University Lafia, announced Peter Obi as winner and commended the people of Plateau State for conducting themselves peacefully. He called on various party agents to sign the Result Sheet.
On his part, the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr. Oliver Agundu, commended the security operatives, journalists, various observers and stakeholders for their patience and commitment to see that the election was concluded. And prayed that this same collaboration would be seen during the Governorship and Houses of Assembly elections.
There was commendation from party representatives and agents.
