THE All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Bola Tinubu, is leading his closest rivals, Rabiu Kwankwaso and Atiku Abubakar, in at least six Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Katsina state.
The ICIR gathered that Tinubu has polled not less than 82,332 votes in the six local government areas of the state. His closest rival, Atiku of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) got 69,175 votes while Rabiu Kwankwaso of New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, recorded 8,629 votes.
The results were announced by the collation officer at the State Collation Centre in Katsina.
Atiku has so far won a Local Government Area. He emerged winner of the Batsari local government area with 8,889 against Tinubu, who had 7,017. NNPP got 1,096 in the area.
Katsina state has 34 local government areas.
The six LGAs where Tinubu won are Matazu, Kaita, Musawa, Ingawa, Charanci and Dutci.
Collation of other LGAs is ongoing.
Usman Mustapha is a solution journalist with International Centre for Investigative Reporting. You can easily reach him via: umustapha@icirnigeria.com. He tweets @UsmanMustapha_M