The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has emerged winner of Saturday’s presidential election in Kebbi and Sokoto state.
Prof. Usman Saidu, the collation officer in Kebbi, presented the result in Birnin Kebbi, saying Atiku won with 285,175 votes.
Sen. Bola Tinubu, the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), polled 248,088 votes while the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, also scored 10,682 votes and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), scored 5,038 votes.
He stated that the state total registered voters as 1,983,985, the number of accredited voters as 599,201; total votes cast- 591,475; total valid votes-559,522 while 31,953 votes were rejected.
Meanwhile in Sokoto, Atiku edged over Tinubu and other candidates with 288,679 votes.
Prof. Kabiru Bala, the collation officer in Sokoto, presented the results on Tuesday, noting that the All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 285,444 votes.
Bala said that Labour Party’s (LP) Presidential Candidate also scored 6,568 votes, while that of NNPP got 1,300 votes.
Also, the presidential candidates of Accord Party (A) scored 115 votes, Action Alliance (AA) got 110 votes, AAC 128 votes, ADC 486 votes, ADB 1,105 votes, and APGA 808 votes.
Others are: APM 273 votes, APP 219 votes, BP 126 votes, NRM 681 votes, PRP 324 votes, SDP 120 votes, YPP 175 votes and ZLP 208 votes.
He gave the state’s total registered voters as 2,037,024, number of accredited voters as 619,492 voters, total votes cast 607,890, valid votes as 586,815, while 21,015 votes were rejected.
About 133 registration areas were cancelled during the process, which affected 271 polling units, involving 254,902 voter cards collected out of 301, 299 registered voters.
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