News available to ViewPointNigeria indicates that APC candidate, Jackson Nimmwang has emerged as the winner of the Langtang South State Constituency by-election in Plateau which was held on Saturday.

The by-election was conducted after the Federal High Court ruled against the victory of PDP candidate, Vincent Bulus when evidence was provided which proved that he was an ex-convict.

Speaking in Mabodi, The INEC Returning officer, Tor Iorapuu declared Mr. Nimmwang as the winner of the by-election with 3,688 votes while his counterpart from Mega Progressives Peoples Party, MPPP, Rinsmicit Emmanuel raked in 83 votes.

Mr. Iorapuu said the turn out for the election was very low as only 6,631 out of a total of 48,615 people participated in the election.

He said the election was held at 68 polling units.

A total of 400 trained ad-hoc staff, drawn from NYSC and tertiary institutions , conducted the election, supervised by the FCT Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Jacob Jatau.

The Management Committee Chairman, Lantang South Local Government, Nicholas Vongsing expressed his joy over the outcome of the election as it was conducted peacefully.

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Plateau: APC wins Langtang South by-election