Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has been declared the winner of Saturday’s presidential election in Katsina State and Gombe.
In Katsina, 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 (LP) scored 6,376, while Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) polled 69,386 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, on Monday morning.
In Gombe State, Atiku polled 319,123 in the 11 local government areas (LGAs) of the state.
The Gombe State Collation Officer, Prof Maimuna Waziri, who announced the result around on Monday, said the PDP candidate won with over 160,000 votes to beat his closest rivals, Peter Obi of the the LP, Bola Tinubu of the APC and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP.
Tinubu polled 146,977, Obi 26,160 and Kwankwaso scored 10,520..
