Oh Well! I guess we celebrated too soon....
Only a weeks ago history was reportedly made. It was widely reported that a female, Aisha Al-Hassan of APC had been declared the winner of the Taraba state governorship elections making her the first ever democratically elected female governor in the history Nigeria.
Nigerians all over the world saw this as a welcome development and immediately began to celebrate her win but sadly, that election was later declared inconclusive and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ordered for a run-off in some polling units across 10 local government areas of the state.
At the end of Saturday 25th's re-election, INEC declared the Peoples Democratic Party's candidate, Darius Ishiaku as winner with a total of 360, 318 votes as against Hajia Al-Hassan's 275, 985 votes.
From the looks of things, both candidates may be heading to the Tribunal as Hajia Al-Hassan has refused to concede defeat.
Rejecting the the results, Al-Hassan describes the election as
"Day light robbery characterized by violence, massive rigging, ballot snatching and abuse of the card readers in substantial parts of the state by PDP and their allies", and said the party will challenge the results in the Election Petitions Tribunal...
Oh well, there goes our hope for a the first elected female governor....It sure would have been nice!!!
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