Despite the stiff opposition of Ahmed Aliyu and his godfather Senator Aliyu Wamakko of the All Progressives Congress, Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal, on Sunday, has been reelected for a second term.
However he defeated his closest opponent, who was his former deputy, by a narrow margin of 341 votes.
Tambuwal polled 512,002 votes against his APC challenger’s 511,661 to retain his seat.
Though he lost in the collated result for 35 polling units in Kebbe LGA, he was able to edge his opponent by retaining the lead.
After the results from 21 LGAs were tallied, Tambuwal led with 2,057 votes, after polling 506,545 votes. Aliyu, his APC challenger had 504,488 votes.
However, the margin of APC’s victory in Kebbe was not enough to change the final picture. APC polled 7,177 votes while PDP scored 5,457.
Overall in the supplementary votes, APC got 25,515 votes while Governor Tambuwal of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 22,444 votes.
Collation of results through the night on Saturday had been adjourned at 3:30 am after results from 21 LGAs were announced.
When the process resumed at about 10:20 am on Sunday, APC polled 7,173 votes while PDP scored 5,457 votes in Kebba LGA.
Following are the results in the 22 LGAs as announced by the Returning Officer, Prof Fatima Mukhtar, Vice chancellor of Federal University of Dutse:
Kware LGA – APC: 211 PDP: 186
Tureta LGA – APC: 56 PDP: 238
Isa LGA – APC: 68 PDP: 99
Gwadabawa LGA – APC: 187 PDP: 163
Yabo LGA – APC: 110 PDP: 106
Yabo LGA – APC: 110 PDP: 106
Denge Shuni LGA – APC: 652 PDP: 626
Sokoto South LGA – APC: 313 PDP: 278
Bodinga LGA – APC: 299 PDP: 309
Binji LGA – APC: 517 PDP: 1,039
Wurno LGA – APC: 904 PDP: 609
Wammako LGA – APC: 417 PDP: 221
Rabba LGA – APC: 1,411 PDP: 1,319
Illela LGA – APC: 632 PDP: 607
Gudu LGA – APC: 211 PDP: 176
Silame LGA – APC: 504 PDP: 834
Shagari LGA – APC: 242 PDP: 263
Tambuwal LGA – APC: 1,392 PDP: 1,644
Sabon Birni LGA – APC: 1,023 PDP: 887
Gada LGA – APC: 5,548 PDP 4336
Goronyo LGA – APC 1,433 PDP: 1,265
Kebba LGA – APC: 7,173 PDP: 5,457
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