Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Saturday’s election, has emerged winner in Kaduna State, defeating the candidate of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
In the final results collated and declared by INEC at the State collation centre, PDP won in 14 Local Government Areas, Labour Party, 7, while the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) won only two Local Government Areas (LGAs).
The final result as announced by Professor Muhammad Zayyan Umar, the returning officer, said that Atiku polled 554,360 votes ahead of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the APC who secured 399,293 votes, a difference of 155,067.
Labour Party’s Peter Obi garnered 294,494 votes and Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) trailed with 92,962 votes
Out of the 4.3 million registered voters, 1. 4 million were accredited for the election in Kaduna.
Meanwhile, Atiku Abubakar won the Presidential election in Sokoto State with 288,679 to beat the APC candiddate, Tinubu, who polled 285,444 votes.
Tinubu was leading Atiku with about 7000 votes after results from 22 local government areas had been announced.
However, the result from the last local government area, Tambuwal which is the hometown of Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal overturned the result, and put Atiku ahead with 3,235 votes.
According to the result which was announced around 2am, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) came third with 6,568 votes while Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) scored 1,300 votes.
The returning officer, Professor Muhammadu Kabir noted that, election from 471 polling units across 133 registration areas were canceled over violence, among others issues.
He noted that, the cancellation affected 301,499 registered voters with 254,902 collected Permanent Voters Cards.
Shortly after the announcement, the PDP agent and former Minister of Transport, Yusuf Suleiman called on the electoral body to conduct another election in the affected areas.
According to him, the result declared did not represent the wish of the people of the state because over 300,000 were denied their right to vote the candidate of their choice during the election due to violence perpetrated by thugs.
Responding to his call, agent of the APC and the Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammadu Maigari Dingyadi, said INEC should.be allowed to do its job.
