PAUL ORUDE, BAUCHI
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bauchi State Governor Mohammed Abubakar, has lost his polling unit to the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Bala Muhammed in the ongoing gubernatorial and state House of Assembly election in the state.
At the governor’s polling unit, Gindin Durumi, the presiding officer, Mr Chinedu Onuora, while counting the number of votes, announced that Bala Muhammed of the PDP had the highest number of votes scored.
According to the presiding officer, the total number of votes gathered by the governorship candidate of the PDP at the polling unit was 358, while the total number of votes scored by the governor was 288.
He said that Bala Muhammed defeated the governor at the polling unit with a difference of 70 votes.
Onuora also stated that the total number of invalid votes recorded at the polling unit was 59.