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
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