All Progressives Congress (APC) has won the Plateau State
House of Assembly by-election. The poll was held in Langtang South State
Constituency sequel to a Federal High Court judgement which invalidated the
victory of Vincent Bulus, the PDP candidate in the April 14, 2015 elections
after it was proved that he was an ex-convict.
The
candidate of the APC Jackson Nimmwang won the seat with 3,688 votes, with
Rinsmicit Emmanuel of the Mega Progressives Peoples Party (MPPP) coming second
with only 83 votes. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)’s
Returning Officer, Prof. Tor Iorapuu, while declaring APC winner in the
election said that the turn out at the election was very low as only 13 per
cent of the 48,615 registered voters participated in the election held in 68
polling units.
Iorapuu, however, described the election as “very free and fair’’. He said only 6,571 of the 6,631 accredited voters voted during the election. A
total of 400 trained ad-hoc staff, drawn from NYSC and tertiary institutions,
conducted the election, supervised by the FCT Resident Electoral Commissioner
(REC), Mr Jacob Jatau.
Commenting on the outcome, Mr Nicholas Vongsing, Management Chairman, Lantang
South Local Government, expressed happiness that the election went on
peacefully and devoid of any rancour in the council.
