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#NIGERIA DECIDES2023: Atiku wins in Sokoto

Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has emerged winner of Saturday’s Presidential election in Sokoto State with 288,679 votes.

The State Collation Officer and Vice-chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Prof. Kabiru Bala, who presented the results, on Tuesday, in Sokoto, said the All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 285,444 votes.

Prof. Bala also said that Mr. Peter Obi of the  Labour Party scored 6,568 votes, while that of NNPP got 1,300 votes.

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Other results given by Prof. Bala were that the Presidential Candidates of Accord Party (A) scored 115 votes, Action Alliance (AA) got 110 votes, AAC 128 votes, ADC 486 votes, ADB 1,105 votes and APGA 808 votes.

Others were: APM 273 votes, APP 219 votes, BP 126 votes, NRM 681 votes, PRP 324 votes, SDP 120 votes, YPP 175 votes and ZLP 208 votes.

He gave the state’s total registered voters as 2,037,024, number of accredited voters as 619,492 voters, total votes cast 607,890, valid votes as 586,815, while 21,015 votes were rejected.

Prof. Bala further said 133 registration areas were cancelled during the process, which affected 271 polling units, involving 254,902 voter cards collected out of 301, 299 registered voters.

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