President Muhammadu Buhari has won Nasarawa state for the first time since 2003 defeating Alhaji Atiku Abubakar by 37,896 votes.
Results
collated by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in
Lafia shows that President Buhari polled 279,315 votes to defeat Atiku
who polled 241,419 votes.
Buhari won in eight local governments
while Atiku won in five local governments marking the first time the
Peoples Democratic Party has lost Nasarawa state in a presidential
election since then return to democracy in 1999.
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The
president got his highest number of votes in Lafia, the state capital,
where he polled 55,254, while Atiku got his highest votes in Karu local
government after polling 49,292.
Source:- Thenationonlineng
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