The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, as the winner of the presidential election conducted in Sokoto State last Saturday.
Atiku polled a total of 288,679 votes to defeat his opponents to win the City of Caliphate governed by his campaign Director General, Aminu Tambuwal.
The PDP presidential candidate was keenly followed by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, who scored a total number of 285,444 votes.
The candidates of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi and New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, came third and fourth with a total of 6,568 and 1,300 votes respectively.
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.
Bala 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.
INEC Suspends Collation Of Results In Kebbi As Returning Officer Disappears
Meanwhile, INEC was forced earlier to suspend the collation of results in Kebbi State following the disappearance of a returning officer.
It was gathered the returning officer for the Marafa ward in Birnin Kebbi could not be traced since about 2 pm on Sunday.
Before the disappearance, he was asked to step aside and reconcile some discrepancies in the result figures he brought to the collation centre.
