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Akinwande Soji-Ojo
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has been declared the winner of the February 25 presidential election in Yobe State.
The State Returning Officer, Prof Umar Pate, announced that Atiku polled 198,567 votes to defeat All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who had 151,459.
Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) polled 2406 votes while Rabiu Kwankwaso of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) had 18,270 votes.
Yobe is the home state of Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, an APC chieftain who won his Yobe North Senatorial seat but failed to deliver the state for his party’s presidential candidate.
Atiku has also won Katsina, the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari, Gombe and is leading in his home state of Adamawa.
This is the first time PDP will win presidential election in Yobe State since the return of democracy in 1999.