Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party Atiku Abubakar has won the presidential election ahead of All Progressives Congress APC, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu in President Muhammadu Buhari’s state, Katsina after polling the highest number of votes from the 34 LGA in the state.
The INEC Returning Officer for Katsina State Presidential Election, Prof. Ma’azu Abubakar Gusau, announced the result at about 3:00am today, Monday, at the Collation Centre located inside INEC Headquarters, Katsina.
Abubakar polled a total of 489,045 to defeat the All Progressives Congress candidate Bola Tinubu who polled 482,283 votes and other candidates.
NNPP’s candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso, came in at third with 69,386, followed by Labour Party flagbearer Peter Obi who secured 6,376 votes.
The total number of registered voters in the state was 3,516,719 but only about a third of that number, 1,097,663 were accredited to vote.
