Omar takes total responsibility for defeat

There are lessons to be learnt. In constituencies where development has taken in the last five-and-a-half years, we have not won,” Omar said.  

He said the party would soon analyse the results. “We have learnt from the last polls, when we were defeated in 2002”.

He said the main opposition PDP, which has won the three seats, did not become irrelevant when they had lost in the last Parliamentary polls.

“This is a setback. I hope you can give me sometime and we will sit together in the party to analyse the results,” he said and added that the results neither were an end of the National Conference nor will they become irrelevant.  

The ruling NC-Congress coalition is facing a rout in the state.