The Independent National ElectoralCommission on Sunday, announced the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, as the winner of the presidential election in Ekiti State, after polling 201,494 votes, to defeat his closest rival, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 89,554 votes.
However, Atiku Abubakar returned that favour by defeating Tinubu in Katsina State, the President’s home state, though by a small margin. The former vice president polled 489,045 votes while Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), scored 482,283 votes.
The INEC state Collation Officer and Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Gusau, Zamfara State, Mu’azu Abubakar, announced the result at a Collation Centre in Katsina, Monday morning.
Meanwhile Atiku won the presidential election in Osun state.
Folashade Ogunsola, the state’s collation officer for INEC, announced the development on Sunday.
Abubakar polled 354,366 votes to defeat Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who scored 343,945 votes.
Peter Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party (LP) got 23,283 votes, while Rabiu Kwankwaso of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) had 713 vote
Tinubu was declared the winner of the presidential election in Ekiti State.
This is as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said the collation of results would continue at 11am today because most of the states were expected to have completed the collation of results last night.
The State Collation Officer for the Ekiti State, Prof. Akeem Lasisi, said APC scored a total of 201,494 votes, while Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scored 89,554 votes. The Labour Party’s candidate, Peter Obi, on the other hand, garnered 11,397 votes and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) polled 264 votes.
Lasisi, who said Ekiti had a total of 988,923 registered voters, while the number of accredited voters were 315,058, added that, the total valid votes was 308,171, while number of rejected stood at 6,301 and total votes cast, 314,472.
In the early hours of this morning, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, was declared the winner of the Saturday’s presidential election in Katsina state.
The former vice president polled 489,045 votes to defeat his closest rival, Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), who scored 482,283 votes.
Peter Obi of the Labour Party scored 6,376 while Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party polled 69,386 votes.
Kwankwaso Leads in 25 Kano LGAs
Presidential Candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has taken a lead over other presidential candidates in the 25 local government areas of Kano State, going by the results so far announced by the INEC while the APC has won four LGAs.
At the time of filing this report, collation of results were still on-going at INEC office, Kano, while the state remained calm and peaceful.
But there were indications that the total results for Kano might not be ready till Monday.
Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, lost his local government area to Kwankwaso.
Ganduje is from Ganduje village in Dawakin Tofa local government area of the state.
From the results announced by the returning officer, Adamu Jibril, APC scored 16,773 votes while NNPP scored 25,072 votes. PDP scored 2,477 votes and Labour got 202 votes.
Also, Nasiru Sule Garo, the House of Representatives Candidate for Gwarzo/ Kabo Federal Constituency on the platform of New Nigeria People’s Party, has rejected the results of his constituency over alleged over voting.
Addressing a news conference, Garo said his decision to reject the results was based on the physical evidence of massive collaboration with state government, INEC officials and security agents in carrying out the electoral malpractice.
Obi Wins Three Out of Seven LGAs in Enugu
Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has won three local governments out of the seventeen local governments announced so far in Enugu State.
Obi was declared winner of the polls in Enugu South and Nkanu East LGs at the INEC collation centre in the state.
At Nkanu East, the LP candidate polled a total of 11,746 votes while the PDP scored 1430. The APC got 96 votes.
At Enugu South, the LP got a total of 38,511 votes while the PDP got 336 votes and the APC scored 194 votes. Out of a total of 178,654 registered voters, only 40, 347 voters were accredited.
In Aniniri LG, the LP candidate scored a total of 11,339 votes while the PDP scored 395 votes and APC 64. There were a total of 79,917 registered voters.
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