The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has emerged as the winner of the presidential election in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
Mr Obi, a former Governor of Anambra State, secured 281,717 votes, Bola Tinubu of the ruling APC polled 90,902 votes while Atiku Abubakar of the PDP got 74,199 votes.
The Labour Party candidate defeated his closes challenger with 190,815 votes.
A total of 478,923 people were accredited to vote in Abuja, meaning Mr Obi secured about 59 per cent of the votes cast. Neither Mr Tinubu (19 per cent) nor Atiku (15 per cent) scored up to 25 per cent of the votes in the Nigerian capital.
The Federal Capital Territory has six area councils—Gwagwalada, Abaji, Kwali, Gwagwalada, Bwari and Abuja Municipal.
Out of the six area councils, Labour Party won four, while the APC won two.
Mr Obi’s largest victory was in Abuja Municipal (AMAC), where he secured over 70 per cent of the votes cast and defeated his closest challenger with over 140,000 votes.
In AMAC, the LP candidate polled 170,392 votes to defeat Bola Tinubu of the APC who polled 29,596 votes and Atiku Abubakar of the PDP who scored 26,407 votes.
Meanwhile, PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has emerged winner of Saturday’s Presidential election in Kebbi and Sokoto States.
Professor Usman Saidu, the collation officer in Kebbi, presented the result in Birnin Kebbi, saying Atiku won with 285,175 votes.
Tinubu of the ruling APC polled 248,088 votes while the Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi, scored 10,682 votes and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), scored 5,038 votes.
He stated that the Kebbi 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.
