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2023 Elections: Atiku Wins Home State, Adamawa With Wide Margin

The PDP candidate polled a total of 417,611 votes as against Tinubu’s 182,881 votes and Obi who scored 105,645 votes.


A file photo of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
A file photo of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.

 

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has recorded a comfortable victory in his home state, Adamawa. 

He defeated his main challengers, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party by a wide margin in Saturday’s presidential election.

The PDP candidate polled a total of 417,611 votes as against Tinubu’s 182,881 votes and Obi’s 105,645 votes. Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) came a distant fourth with 8,006.

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According to the collation officer in the state, Prof. Mohammed Mele, a total of 764,834 voters were accredited out of the 2,186,465 total of registered voters.

FULL LIST: Votes by parties:

TOTAL REGISTERED VOTERS – 2,186,465

TOTAL ACCREDITED VOTERS – 764,834

A – 654

AA – 536

AAC – 646

ADC – 3,398

ADP – 1,906

APC – 182,881

APGA – 887

APM – 650

APP – 372

BP – 522

LP – 105,645

NNPP – 8,006

NRM – 1,563

PDP – 417,611

PRP – 701

SDP – 1,944

YPP – 958

ZLP – 2,257

TOTAL VALID VOTES – 731,140

REJECTED VOTES – 30,481

TOTAL VOTES CAST – 761,621