The Independent National Electoral Commission,INEC has declared the All Progressives Congress, APC candidate Abdullahi Suleas the winner of Saturday’s governorship election in Nasarawa state. The Returning Officerfor the election Abdullahi Bala announced Sule as governor-elect on Monday inLafia after the collation of results from the 13 local government areas of thestate. He said the APC candidate polled a total of 327,229 votes to defeatother opponents in the election. According to Bala, thePeople’s Democratic Party, PDP David Ombugadu scored 184,281 votes, while theAll Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA Labaran Maku of polled a total of 132,784votes at the election. He said 686,303 voterswere accredited and 681,400 cast their ballots during the election. The officerfurther explained that 670,879 of the votes cast were valid while 10,521 wererejected. The result indicatedthat APC won in 11 out of the 13 local government areas of the state while Makuof APGA and Umar Aliyu Doma of Zenith Labour Party won in Nasarawa Eggon andDoma local government areas respectively.