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Atiku got a total of 288,679 votes
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Tinubu got a total of 285,444 votes
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Peter Obi and Kwankwaso got a total of 6,568 and 1,300 votes respectively
Eko Hot Blog reports that the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Saturday’s presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, has defeated his opponents to win the Sokoto State elections with a total of 288,679 votes.
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The All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, scored 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 with a total of 6,568 and 1,300 votes respectively.
The results were announced at exactly 2:38 am on Tuesday by the returning officer for the Presidential election in the state, Prof. Kabiru Bala, the Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
Responding, the Director General of the PDP campaign committee, Yusuf Suleiman, called on INEC to look into 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 be for any of the political parties.
Meanwhile, the returning officer disclosed that a total number of 133 registration areas were affected with 471 polling units in the cancellation.
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He further explained that the affected areas also include 301,499 registered voters with 254,902 Permanent Voter Cards collected.
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