Borno State Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has secured a second term with a landslide victory at the March 18 gubernatorial and state assembly elections.
Zulum contested yhe election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC and scored 545,543, defeating Mohammed Ali Jajari of the PDP, who polled 82,147 votes.
Declaring the result, the state’s Gubernatorial and State Assembly Election Returning Officer, Prof Jude Tsammani Rabo, said Prof Zulum, having scored the highest number of votes and secured a quarter of the votes cast in each of the 27 LGAs of the state has satisfied the requirement of the law was “hereby declared the winner of the gubernatorial election.”
Twelve political parties contested in the election in the state which has 2,513,281 registered voters out of whom 650,533 were accredited.
The APC also won all the 28 House of Assembly seats in the elections.
