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In the 2023 Senate election, Jimkuta polled 85,415 votes to defeat his opponent and the incumbent governor of Taraba State Darius Ishaku who scored 45,708 votes. Jimkuta win over Darius is recorded as one of the major political upsets in the 2023 general elections. On 8 April 2023, just weeks after
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