The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has won the February 25 presidential election in Sokoto state with a slim margin.
Declaring the results on Tuesday, the Returning Officer of the election, Prof Kabiru Bala said Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scored 288,679 votes to defeat his rival Bola Ahmed Tinubu of All Progressives Congress (APC) who scored 285, 444
In the results, Peter Obi of Labour Party (LP) came a distant third with 6,568 votes while Engr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) came fourth with 1,300 votes.
In reaction, the agent of the PDP and former Minister of Transport, Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman said the results did not reflect the wishes of Sokoto voters, stressing that over 300, 000 voters were disfranchised due to electoral violence which led to the cancellation of 471 polling units.
But in a swift reaction, the APC agent and Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi said nobody should bring confusion by quoting unsubstantiated figures.
The response from Dingyadi generated a heated argument from Suleiman and it took the intervention of the returning officer to overrule them.
