Former governor of Gombe state, Alhaji Danjuma Goje of All Progressive Congress (APC), has won the seat of Gombe Central Senatorial District for the third time.
The INEC Returning Officer, Dr Musa Dahiru, announced the result in Kumo, headquarters of Akko Local Government Area of Gombe on Monday, explaining that Goje garnered 110,116 votes to defeat his closest rival, Alhaji Abubakar Nono of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), who won 39,760 votes.
Other candidate for the seat as announced by Dahiru are; Alhaji Umaru Lamido of PRP,8397 votes; Aliyu Adamu of ASD ,155 votes and Salisu Ahmed of CAP, 71 votes.
Others were Ibrahim Adamu of DA, 79 votes; Adamu Baka of DPP, 224 votes; Haruna Musa of HDP, 51 votes; Abubakar Goni of SDP, 349 votes and Adiya Baka of UPN, 27 votes.