THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, winner of the Sokoto south senatorial election.
Tambuwal won the election with 100,860 votes, defeating the incumbent lawmaker and All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Ibrahim Danbaba Dambuwa, who had 95,884 votes.
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The returning officer, Professor Abubakar Abdullahi Bagudo, announced the result on Sunday afternoon.
Dambuwal won the election with a total margin of 4,976.
Tambuwal is a two-term governor of Sokoto state.
He was first elected as governor of Sokoto state in 2015 and reelected in 2019.
Before then, he served as a speaker of the House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015.
Beloved John is an investigative reporter with International Centre for Investigative Reporting.
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