APC vs PDP: Yobe governorship candidate speaks on challenging result
Iliya told newsmen in Damagum after a PDP stakeholders’ meeting which reviewed the outcome of the governorship election that he had accepted the election of MaiMala Buni of the All Progressives Congress as the next governor of the state, NAN reports.
“There may be areas and issues that bedeviled the elections, but a winner has emerged and that has been announced.Iliya said that he had already congratulated the governor-elect on his victory. “I have congratulated MaiMala, the governor-elect and called on him to look at Yobe as his entire constituency, knowing that God has given him this opportunity,” he said.
He urged the governor-elect to use the mandate for the good of the people of the state irrespective of their political differences. Iliya commended his supporters and politicians in the state for conducting themselves peacefully during and after the elections.
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