Candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, in Sokoto State, Governor Aminu Tambuwal, has been
declared winner of the governorship election in the state.
Tambuwal won with a slim margin,
after collation of results from 22 Local Governments Areas (LGAs), where
supplementary election took place on Saturday.
Fatima Mukhtar, Returning Officer
for the election, announced this at the INEC collation center in the state in
the state on Sunday.
Governor Tambuwal polled 512,002
votes to defeat Ahmad Aliyu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who came
close behind with 511,661, losing to his erstwhile principal with just
341votes.
Tambuwal was leading with 489,
558 votes on March 9 when the governorship election was declared inconclusive,
while Ahmad Aliyu of the All Progressives Congress, APC came behind with
486,145 votes.
He had led with 3,413 votes with
cancellations in 136 polling units across 22 LGAs, which had 75,403 registered
voters.
For Kebbe LGA, the last deciding
factor for the elections, PDP secured 5,457, while APC polled 7,173 votes.
Official results of 21 LGAs
announced so far at the State collation centre, located at the Sultan Maccido
Institutes, indicates that Tambuwal was leading his counterpart, Aliyu Ahmad of
the APC, with a margin of 161 votes.
However, at the final count, the
APC polled 511,661 votes, while the PDP secured 512,002 votes, respectively.
As such, PDP defeated APC with
341 votes.
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