The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has been declared winner of last Saturday’s presidential election in Kaduna State.
The PDP won 14 local government areas, the Labour Party 7, while the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) won only two.
Upon announcing the final results compiled and announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the state collation centre, Professor Muhammad Zayyan Umar, the returning officer, stated that Atiku polled 554,360 votes, while Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the APC polled 399,293 votes.
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According to him, Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, received 294,494 votes, while Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) received 92,962 votes.
He added that 1. 4 million of the 4.3 million registered voters in Kaduna were accredited for the election.