Atiku Abubakar 2011 President campaign Photo by www.mortenfauerby.dk ©mortenfauerby 2010 - all rights reserved
Gatekeepers News reports that the collation officer in Kebbi State, Usman Saidu said Atiku polled 285,175 votes to win the state.
On the other hand, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu polled 248,088 votes in the State.
Saidu said the Labour Party (LP) standard bearer, Peter Obi had 10,682 votes while the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP)’s Rabi Kwankwaso scored 5,038 votes.
The collation officer gave the state’s total registered voters as 1,983,985, and the number of accredited voters as 599,201.
The total votes cast were 591,475, the total valid votes were 559,522 while 31,953 votes were rejected.
Shortly after the Kebbi result was announced, the director-general of the PDP campaign in Kebbi, Bala Dole said if not for some ”little hitches”, his party would have secured more votes.
Similarly, Atiku Abubakar won the presidential election in in Sokoto state, securing 288,679 votes.
The state collation officer and vice-chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Kabiru Bala said Tinubu polled 285,444 votes, Obi secured 6,568 and Kwankwaso got 1,300 votes.
The collation of the election results continues today.
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