Re- run: ADP, LP win Plateau Senate, Reps seats

• NNPP rejects results, accuses INEC of bias • APC tried to rob me, says Bauchi ex- Speaker

CANDIDATE of Action Democratic Party ( ADP), Pam Mwadkwon, has been declared winner in the Plateau North Senatorial District re- run election, having scored the highest votes cast.

Declaring the winner, yesterday, the Returning Officer ( RO), Prof Nestor C hagok of University of Jos ( UNIJOS) said that ha ving scored 122,442 votes, Mwadkon became winner for Plateau

North Senatorial seat. He defeated his closest contestant, Gyang Zi of the Labour Party ( LP), who scored 33,243 votes.

For the Jos North/ Bassa Federal Constituency, Daniel Asama of LP was declared winner, having scored 66,422. Trailing him was Mohammed Garba of Peoples Redemption Party ( PRP), who polled 61,670.

Asama replaced a former House of Representatives member whose election was nullified by the Court of Appeal for not complying with the electoral guidelines; hence, a re- run was ordered. His party logo was not included in the ballot paper.

BUT the candidate of New Nigeria Peoples Party ( NNPP), Yakubu Shafiu, who contested the Plateau North Senate seat, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC) of favouring a particular candidate.

Addressing journalists, yesterday, in Jos, Shafiu said he and his party saw the re- run election in the 16 polling units as a grand plan to rob him and his party of victory. He said: “We cannot see the reason behind a re- run election in those 16 polling units by the electoral umpire just because of mere claims by some people that there was shortage of election materials in 18 polling stations in Tudun Wada, Kabong and Naraguta “B” wards, when it is clear to all that this is an off- season election and not a general election.”