Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, of the All Progressive Congress, APC, has been re-elected governor with a landslide victory at last Saturday’s governorship and state House of Assembly elections.
Zulum scored 545,543 to defeat his distant trailer, Mohammed Ali Jajari of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who polled 82,147 votes.
The state’s Governorship and State Assembly Election Returning Officer, Prof Jude Tsammani Rabo, who declared the result said Zulum, had scored the highest number of votes and secured a quarter of the votes cast in each of the 27 Local Government Areas of the state.
He said Zulum, having satisfied the requirement of the law was hereby declared the winner of the gubernatorial election.
Twelve political parties contested the election in the state which has 2,513,281 registered voters out of whom 650,533 were accredited.
The APC also won all 28 House of Assembly seats in the elections.