President Muhammadu Buhari failed to win deliver his Katsina state to Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of his party All Progressives Congress as Atiku Abubakar, the flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party claimed victory in the state.
Atiku polled 489,045 votes from across the 34 local governments while Tinubu recorded 482,045 votes as the margin of 6,762 votes separated the two political gladiators.
He defeated his major rival in the 2023 elections with a margin of 6,762 votes as Tinubu polled 482,045 votes to come second in the Katsina presidential election held on Saturday.
Katsina State Presidential Election Returning Officer, Prof. Ma’azu Abubakar Gusau, also declared that Presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party Rabiu Kwankwaso came a distant third with 69,385 votes and was followed by Peter Obi of the Labour Party who secured 6,376 votes.
Gusau gave the result of the other presidential candidates as follows:
A 255, AA 523, AAC 234, ADC 1405, ADP 1798, APGA 1391, APM 603, APP 269, BP 327, NRM 1053, PRP 1986, SDP 339,
YPP 1029 and ZLP 371.
The state returning officer, however, noted that the presidential election results were cancelled in some polling units in 15 LGAs due to thuggery, over-voting, among other reasons.
