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- Atiku declared the winner in Sokoto State with 288679 Votes. NigeriaElectionresults
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The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Saturday’s presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, has flawlessly defeated his opponents to win the Sokoto State elections with a total of 288,679 votes.
Announcing the results at exactly 2:38 am on Tuesday, the returning officer for the Presidential election in the state, Prof. Kabiru Bala, the Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, invited party representatives to sign the results.
Atiku was closely followed by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, who got a total number of 285,444 votes, while candidates of the Labour Party, Peter Obi and New Nigerian Peoples Party, Rabiu Kwankwaso, came third and fourth respectfully, with a total of 6,568 and 1,300 votes.
In response to this, the Director General of the PDP campaign committee, Yusuf Suleiman, called on INEC to consider the issue of more than 400 polling units cancelled in the state.
He said about 300,000 voters in the state have been disenfranchised and that their votes could go for either of the political parties including APC, PDP, LP or even the NNPP.
Also speaking, the Director General of the APC presidential campaign council, Maigari Dingyadi, said politicians should not quote figures without recourse to INEC.
Dingyadi who is also the Minister for Police Affairs, however, urged INEC to look into the circumstances that led to the cancellation of the results.
Meanwhile, the returning officer disclosed that a total number of 133 registration areas were affected with 471 polling units in the cancellation. He further explained that the affected areas also include 301,499 registered voters with 254,902 Permanent Voter Cards collected.
Onwuamaeze Lucky
- 2023-02-28 06:30:37
