JUST IN: INEC Presents Certificate Of Return To PDP’s Douye Diri.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has presented the Certificate of Return to Senator Douye Diri.

The electoral commission in a briefing at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja declared the PDP candidate winner of the November 16 governorship election.

INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu told journalists that Diri was declared the winner after top officials met on Friday morning to review the results of the election, without the votes of the APC which have been voided by the court.

He said, “In compliance with orders of the Supreme Court, the commission met this morning and reviewed the result of the election in which 45 political parties contested.

“Without the votes scored by the All Progressives Congress whose candidates were deemed not to have participated in the elections, the total number of lawful and valid votes cast in the election now stand at 146,999.

“Out of this figure, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party scored the highest number of lawful votes with 143, 172.

“Similarly the party has scored more than 25 per cent of the lawful votes cast in all eight local government areas of the state.”

Lyon’s victory was nullified by the apex court after it emerged that his running mate presented a forged certificate to INEC before the election.

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