Few hours after Kyari Mohammed, the INEC Returning Officer for Taraba governorship election had declared Darius Ishaku of the PDP as the winner of the guber poll, reports came in that the candidate of the APC, Aisha Alhassan, rejected the results of the poll.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Alhassan, popularly called ‘Mama Taraba’, while addressing a press conference in Jalingo shortly after the announcement of the results, described the entire elections process as “daylight robbery.”
The report stated that Alhassan opined that the APC would challenge the results in the elections petitions tribunal.
Alhassan
“The combined governorship elections in Taraba were characterised by violence, massive rigging, ballot snatching and abuse of the card readers in substantial parts of the state by the PDP and their allies,” she said.
The results of Wukari, Donga, Takum, Sardauna, Zing, Yorro, Kurmi and some parts of Ussa, Karim-Lamido, Bali, Ardo-Kola and Lau local government areas were not acceptable as they did not reflect the true results of the election in Taraba, Alhassan added.
Alhassan said all the complaints on the irregularities and abuse of the election guidelines were promptly reported to the INEC, but no action was taken.
Meanwhile, Mohammed, who declared the results on Sunday in Jalingo, said Darius Ishaku scored 369,318 votes to emerge victorious.
Darius Ishaku
He said Mr. Alhassan came second with 275,984 votes, while David Kente of the Social Democratic Party polled 29, 966 votes.
Many political watchers had hoped Mrs. Alhassan would have been the first elected female state governor in Nigeria.
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