Meanwhile, the agent of APC Dennis Otitio after the announcement protested saying
total votes cancelled were more than 53,000 while the difference between Dickson and Sylva was over 48,000 votes.
Although the INEC Returning Officer, Prof Emmanuel Kucha, declared that the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Abubakar Audu, was ahead of his rival, Governor Idris Wada, with a
total of 41,353, the commission must declare it inconclusive because the number of
votes is lower than the entire number of
votes that were
cancelled in the areas where irregularities were noticed.