President Buhari with his Vice, Osinbajo
The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, has won in Katsina with 1,232,133 votes, Niger, Kano and Yobe, while winning with slimmer margins in Kaduna and Sokoto states in Saturday’s presidential election.
Prof. Fatima Mukhtar, the State Collation Officer said Buhari defeated Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party who got 308,056 votes.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Buhari won in all the 34 local government areas of the state with a wide margin.
However the number of votes recorded by Buhari is about 100,000 fewer than the 1,345,441 he got in 2015, when he ran against former President Goodluck Jonathan.
The state has a total of 3.2 million registered voters, but only 1,628,865 voters were accredited during the election, Mukhtar said.
The total votes cast was 1,619,186 and 63,712 votes were rejected.
Meanwhile Atiku thrashes Buhari in Enugu, Ebonyi, Plateau, Edo, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom and Benue.
As the collation of the results of Saturday’s presidential election continued last night, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), added Enugu, Ebonyi, Plateau, Edo, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom and Benue to the list of stats won by him, thus reducing the gap between him and incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Declaring the results on Tuesday in Makurdi, the State Constituency Collation Officer, Prof Sebastine Maimako, said Atiku polled a total of 355,255 votes to beat his closest rival, Buhari, who scored 347,668 votes.
He said the total number of votes cast were 761,780, the valid votes were 727,347, the total number of registered voters was 2,391,276 while total accredited votes stood at 786,069.
Atiku won in 13 of 23 Local Government Areas while Buhari won in 10.
Atiku won in Ukum, Opokwu, Guma, Ogbadibo, Gwer West, Buruku, Logo, Agatu, Apa, Ado, Obi, Gwer East and Katsina -Ala.
Buhari won in Tarka, Gboko, Otukpo, Oju,
Makurdi, Ushongo, Ohimini,
Kwande, Vandeikya and Konshisha LGAs. (NAN)
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