Ibn Na’Allah Loses Fifth Term National Assembly Bid

Senator Bala Ibn Na’Allah has lost the Kebbi South Senatorial Election to the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Garba Musa Maidoki.

Returning Officer, Professor Ibrahim Muhammed, said Maidoki polled 75,232 votes to win the election against Na’Allah of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who polled 70,785 votes.

Na’Allah, a serving senator was bidding for Senate for the third time, having previously spent two terms at the lower chamber of the National Assembly.

He lost his senatorial reelection by a margin of 5000 to the PDP candidate who contested the senate election for the first time.

Elections: INEC dismisses PDP’s allegations of over-voting in Ekiti

Meanwhile, the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) has dismissed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s claim of over-voting in Saturday’s presidential election in Ekiti State.

The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this during the ongoing presentation of collated results of the presidential election.

The Ekiti State’s results were the first to be officially called at the national collation centre on Sunday in Abuja.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu won the election with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar coming second.