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74 Air Vice-Marshal (AVM) Napoleon Bali (retd) of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been declared winner of the Plateau South Senatorial election, held Saturday.
Bali defeated Lalong, the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, who is also the Director-General of Tinubu’s APC 2023 Presidential Campaign Council.
Declaring the results in Shendam LGA on Monday evening, the Returning Officer, Prof Goyit, said that Bali polled a total of 148, 844 valid votes against Lalong, who polled 91, 674 votes, and declared Bali winner of the election.
A breakdown of the results indicate that Bali defeated Lalong in five out of the six local governments in the senatorial zone, including Lalong’s Shendam LGA, as well as the incumbent local government chairman’s Shimankar Ward.
The senator-elect floored Lalong with a wide margin in Quaan-Pan, Shendam, Mikang, Langtang North, and Langtang South, losing to the governor only in Wase, where Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Idris Maje, holds sway.
