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Election
Yakubu Ubah
Yola, Nov. 9, 2016 (NAN) Residents of Yola have expressed shock and surprise over the outcome of U.S. election that saw Donald Trump emerging as the 45th President-elect.
A cross section of the residents, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said that they were taken by surprise by the outcome in spite of media reports that Hillary Clinton had edged over Trump.
“I was shocked and surprise by the outcome, I never imagined that it will turnout that way, but we pray for the best,” Abubakar Ibrahim, a civil servant, said.
Umar Dankano, a journalist, said that he was also shocked by the outcome and is yet to come to terms with it.
“I was shocked and can’t find the word to describe how I feel about this outcome.
“My prayer is that the president-elect will prove his critics wrong by making good his promise after the victory when he said he would be president for all Americans,” Dankano said.
Ahmad Auwal, Emmanuel Joseph, Babayo Danjuma and Tina Marcus also expressed surprise over the outcome and said the development had showed that people should not be relying on opinion polls as final outcome of an election.
“I got a new experienced that henceforth, one should not just take media polls whole and sinker,” Auwal said. (NAN)
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Edited by Felix Nwadioha