Hon. Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto, the candidate of the opposition All
Progressives Congress (APC) in the just-concluded Saturday’s governorship
election in Sokoto State, has been declared the governor-elect of State.
Declaring Ahmed Aliyu as duly elected at the INEC collation
centre in Sokoto Sunday night, the Returning Officer, Professor Armayau Hamisu
from Federal University, Dutsinma, Katsina State, announced that the APC
candidate polled 453,661 votes to defeat his closest challenger and candidate
of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mallam Saidu Umar, who polled
404,632 votes.
Recall that Aliyu was the deputy governor to the incumbent
Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal from 2015 to 2018, when he resigned from office
over political difference with Tambuwal.
The Governor had defected to the PDP at the time while Aliyu
refused to follow suit and stayed put in APC.
According to the declared results, Ahmed Aliyu won in 18 out
of the 23 local government areas of the State.
He won in Binji, Wurno, Yabo, Gwadabawa, Rabah, Bodinga,
Tangaza, Kware, Dange-Shuni, Sabon Birnin, Shagari, Illela, Gudu, Gada, Kebbe,
Sokoto South, Wamakko and Sokoto North local government areas.
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Congratulations sir
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