Atiku, PDP lead in Taraba as results trickle in

Sylvanus Viashima, Jalingo

The presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Alh Atiku Abubakar is enjoying a marginal lead in the presidential race in Taraba State.

The PDP is currently leading in seven out of the thirteen local governments so far declared with a total of 302,471 as against 284,333 of the All Progressives Congress APC.

Also the senatorial candidate of the PDP Senator Emmanuel Bwacha has won the Southern Taraba senatorial seat after clinching 96,352 votes, beating the candidates APC and APGA who got 51,971 and 47,093 respectively.

The collation for the Northern and Central zones is still ongoing at the time of this report while the presidential election result is being awaited in the three remaining local governments in the state.

Details of the results so far released are as follows:

Gassol

APC. 45,788

PDP. 17,392

Ibi

APC 18,591

PDP 7,895

Takum

APC 15,894

PDP 24,883

Wukari

APC 23,404

PDP 58,287

Ussa

APC 13,945

PDP 16,716

Lau

APC 12,351

PDP 18,091

Donga

APC. 13,110

PDP. 31,432

Ardo Kola

APC. 19,600

PDP. 19,940

Zing

APC. 5,846

PDP. 23,471

Jalingo

APC. 53,254

PDP. 27,506

Bali

APC. 24,836

PDP. 19,687

Karim Lamido

APC. 28,175

PDP. 27,857

Gashaka

APC 9,989

PDP 9,314