The Independent National Electoral Commission on Sunday declared Jackson Nimmwang, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, the winner of Saturday’s Langtang South State Constituency by-election in Plateau State.
The INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Tor Iorapuu, declared in Mabodi that Nimmwang polled 3,688 votes to beat Rinsmicit Emmanuel of Mega Progressives Peoples Party, who scored 83 votes.
Iorapuu said that the turn out at the election was very low, noting that the constituency had 48,615 registered voters.
He, however, described the election as “very free and fair”.
The by-election was sequel to a Federal High Court judgement, which invalidated the victory of Vincent Bulus, the Peoples Democratic Party candidate in the April 14, 2015 elections, after it was proved that he was an ex-convict.
Only APC and MPPP vied for the seat since the PDP and its candidate were disqualified.
A total of 400 trained ad-hoc staff, drawn from the National Youth Service Corps and tertiary institutions, conducted the election, which was supervised by the FCT Resident Electoral Commissioner, Jacob Jatau.
Commenting on the outcome, Nicholas Vongsing, the Management Chairman, Lantang South Local Government, expressed happiness that the election went on peacefully.
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