By Sam Kayode
Daniel Asama of the Labour Party (LP) has been declared as the winner of the House of Representatives rerun election for Jos North/Bassa Federal Constituency which was conducted on Saturday.
Declaring the results in jos yesterday, the Returning Officer, Prof. James Garba, declared Asama as the winner on Sunday night after he polled the highest votes cast.
According to him Daniel Asama of labour party scored 66,422 votes to defeat his closest rival of the PRP, who got 61,670 votes.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) came a distant third position with just 10,063 votes while others include ADC – 2,090, APP – 331, LP – 66,422, NNPP – 2,475, NRM – 669 and SDP – 336.
Daniel Asama replaces Daniel Agah of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) who’s election was nullified by the appeal court for not complying with the electoral guidelines and a rerun was ordered by the courts.
This reporter recalls that PDP was dropped on the ballot paper due to an appeal court judgement which rendered the PDP helpless in the northern senatorial zone of the state.
