INEC’s Returning Officer, Prof. Mohammed Fannami, who announced the results in Maiduguri, said that Garbai scored 120,639 votes against 32,347 votes scored by Alhaji Kaka Bolori of the PDP who came second.
The election which was conducted on Saturday had Mallam Babakura Modu of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) scoring 660 votes while Alhaji Bukar Muhammed of APGA got 324 votes.
According to the INEC returning officer, the total number of registered voters was 908, 114, while the total number of accredited voters was 174, 329.
Total number of votes cast was 159, 998, there were 155,443 valid votes while the total number of rejected votes was 4,555.
In his reaction, Garbai described his victory as an "act of God", adding that he intends "to pursue an agenda to rehabilitate my people who are badly affected by the Boko Haram insurgency.
"Aside from Maiduguri, all the other population centres in the zone have been displaced by Boko Haram and my major task is to work towards rehabilitating them." he added.
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