The wind of change blowing across the country again resonated yesterday in Niger States, a state that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has governed since the return of civil rule in 1999.
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| Abubakar Sani Bello casting his votes. Source: Sani Lafiya via Facebook |
Results monitored by The Niger Times' agents indicated that Niger State has fallen to the winning streak of the All Progressives Congress (APC), whose candidate,
Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, won the March 28 presidential election against the incumbent, President Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP.
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| Screenshot from votinniger.com |
A website (
voteinniger.com) dedicated to monitoring the elections in Niger State indicates that APC's
Abubakar Sani bello is leading PDP's
Umar Nasko in the Gubernatorial race by over three hundred thousand votes. The Niger Times hasn't been able to independently verify the results on the site as at the time of this report.
Although final figures are still being compiled by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), our agents reported that the APC was leading in most of the polling units in the state.
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| APC supporters celebrating in Niger State |
According to
Leadership Newspaper, Niger State's APC Gubernatorial candidate,
Abubakar Sani Bello, was "jubilant" and excited members of the party were seen celebrating across the state’s 25 local government areas.
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