Tambuwal Delivers Sokoto For Atiku
By Onuminya Innocent In Sokoto
The presidential candidate of People Democratic party (PDP) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has won February , 25 presidential election in Sokoto State
Declaring the results in the early hours of Tuesday the returning officer of the election Prof Kabiru Bala of Ahmadu Bello University , Zaria said Atiku Abubakar of People Democratic party (PDP) scored 288,679 votes to defeat his closest rival Ahmed Bola Tinubu of All Progressives Congress (APC) who scored 285, 444 .
In the results Peter Obi of Labour Party (LP) came distant third with 6,568 votes while Engr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) came fourth with 1300 votes.
In reaction the agent of People Democratic party PDP and former minister of transportation Yusuf Suleiman said the results does not reflects the wish of Sokoto voters stressing that over three hundred thousands (300000) voters in the state were disfranchised due to electoral violence which led to the cancelation of 471 polling units.
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But in a Swift reaction the APC agent and minister of police affairs Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi said nobody should bring confusion by quoting unsubstantiated figures .
The response from Dingyadi generated a heated arguments from Suleiman it took the intervention of the returning officer to over ruled both of them.
However the returning officer Prof Bala Kabiru confirmed the cancelation of 471polling units due to electoral violence.
Tambuwal Delivers Sokoto For Atiku
