THE presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar, has won the presidential election in his state, Adamawa.
Atiku won the poll with a landslide after polling 417,611 votes across the 21 Local Government Areas of the state.
Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu got 182,881 votes while the Labour Party (LP) candidate, Peter Obi, came third with 105,648 votes.
The result was announced by state collation officer Prof. Mohammed Mele, who is also the deputy vice chancellor of the University of Maiduguri.
Mele noted that 764,834 voters were accredited out of the 2,186,465 total registered voters.
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