Aminu Tambuwal, governorship candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) in Sokoto State, has retained his seat as the Governor
of Sokoto state, by a slim margin, after collation of results from 22 Local
Governments Areas (LGAs), where supplementary elections were held.
Results collation for the Sokoto State governorship election
took place at the state collation centre of the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC). When the results of
the March 9 governorship elections were declared inconclusive, PDP had secured
489,558 votes, while Ahmad Aliyu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) came a
close second with 486,145 votes.
At the time, the margin of lead was 3,413 votes. There were
cancellations in 136 polling units across 22 LGAs, which had 75,403 registered
voters. For Kebbe LGA, the last deciding
factor for the elections, PDP secured 5,457, while APC polled 7,173 votes. According to the official results of 21 LGAs
announced so far at the Sokoto collation centre, located at the Sultan Maccido
Institutes, Sokoto State,
Tambuwal was leading his counterpart, Aliyu Ahmad of the
APC, with a margin of 161 votes. However, at the final count, the APC polled
511,661 votes, while the PDP secured 512,002 votes, respectively. As such, PDP defeated APC with 341 votes.
