ALL Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Tinubu has won the presidential election in Niger State.
Tinubu secured a total of 375,183 votes, while Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Atiku Abubakar came second after polling 284,898 votes.
The result was announced on Tuesday, February 28 by Kogi State INEC collation officer for the presidential election Clement Alawa.
According to him, the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, scored 80,452 votes while the candidate of the New Nigeria People Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, got 21,836 votes to come fourth.
Alawa disclosed that 827,416 voters were accredited for the election out of the 2,667,886 registered voters in the state.
The result showed that the total votes cast was 813,355 out of which 34,687 votes were rejected. Valid votes were 778,668
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