The supplementary election for the Jalingo/Yorro/Zing federal Constituency seat in Taraba State on Wednesday recorded massive voter turnout across polling units.

Throughout the 15 polling units in Jalingo metropolis, voters displayed enthusiasm to vote with queues forming as early as 7:00 a.m., ahead of the 8:30 a.m. commencement of the exercise.

Chairman of the All Progressive Congress in the state, Tukur El-Suldi, expressed satisfaction with the turnout.

Mr El-Suldi observed that the turnout could have been higher if the election was scheduled for a weekend.

He, however, expressed confidence that the APC would win in the election.

He noted the orderly atmosphere at the polling units, compared to the rerun held on February 3.

According to Mr El-Suldi, 14,795 votes, totalling the number of PVCs collected in the affected polling units, will be contested by the political parties and their candidates during the supplementary poll.

Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sadiq Tafida, was leading with 17,214 votes during the exercise closely followed by Innocent Jabayang of the Social Democratic Party who garnered 15,537 votes.

Aminu Malle of the APC got 12,000 votes.

The seat became vacant following the death of Samaila Maihanci, who won on the platform of the PDP, but died before the inauguration of the 10th National Assembly.

The February 3 rerun ended up in another rerun due to the slim margin between the winner and the runners-up, which was less than the 14,795 cancelled votes.

There was tight security at the polling units as all the processes followed the laid-down rules governing the conduct of an election.

 (NAN)