{"id":17337,"date":"2024-02-15T17:02:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T17:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/monarchs-son-32-wins-house-of-reps-supplementary-election-in-taraba\/"},"modified":"2024-02-15T17:02:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T17:02:48","slug":"monarchs-son-32-wins-house-of-reps-supplementary-election-in-taraba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/monarchs-son-32-wins-house-of-reps-supplementary-election-in-taraba\/","title":{"rendered":"Monarch\u2019s son, 32, wins House of Reps supplementary election in Taraba"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sadiq Tafida of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has emerged as the member-elect for the Jalingo\/Yorro\/Zing federal constituency in Taraba State.<\/p>\n<p>Tafida, 32, who scored a total of 19,681 votes garnered from the rerun and supplementary polls held on Wednesday, was the son of the Emir of Muri, Alhaji Abbas Njiddah Tafida.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the results on Thursday, the returning officer, a lecturer at the University of Wukari, Professor Olarenwaju Oladipo, said the PDP candidate scored a total of 19,681 votes to emerge as the winner of the keenly contested rerun election in Taraba.<\/p>\n<p>Innocent Jabayang of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, trailed behind with 16,379 votes, while Aminu Malle of the All Progressive Congress, APC, got 12,662 votes.<\/p>\n<p>The election, which the returning officer said was keenly contested, also saw Aminu Liman, the candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, receive 3,646 votes.<\/p>\n<p>The rerun election for the House of Representatives position was held in the state on February 3, 2024, but was declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.<\/p>\n<p>Monarch\u2019s son, 32, wins House of Reps supplementary election in Taraba<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadiq Tafida of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has emerged as the member-elect for the Jalingo\/Yorro\/Zing federal constituency in Taraba&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,490,3,1768,1232],"tags":[180,150,249,1255,1235],"class_list":["post-17337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-pdp","category-politics","category-reps","category-taraba","tag-news","tag-pdp","tag-politics","tag-reps","tag-taraba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}