Governor Aminu Tambuwal Defeats APC’s Aliyu In Sokoto State With 341 Votes Difference

Governor Aminu Tambuwal Defeats APC’s Aliyu In Sokoto State With 341 Votes Difference

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.