Tunde Omolehin, Sokoto

Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has been declared the winner of Sokoto gubernatorial election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Prof. Fatima Mukthar, the Returning/Collation Officer for the state announced that Governor Tambuwal polled a total of 512,002 votes to defeat his arch-rival Hon. Ahmed, Aliyu Sokoto, of the All Progressives Congress who scored 511,660 votes.

She explained that the overall valid votes stood at 1,067,994 while rejected votes were 31,662. The Returning Officer also noted that registered votes numbered 1,887,767 while total accredited votes were 1,083,413.

She said: “Tambuwal, Aminu Waziri, of PDP, having certified the requirements of the law and scored the highest number of votes, is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected.”

However, the supplementary election result as collated indicated that Tambuwal showed that Tambuwal lost, scoring 22,444 votes, while the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Hon. Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto, took the contest, polling a total of 25,515 votes.

The total registered votes of the supplementary were 95,022 while total accredited voters stood at 50,332. She also said 48,390 were the total valid votes, 1,580 votes were rejected while 49,970 votes were cast.

Prior to the declaration of the governorship election inconclusive by Prof Fatima Mukhtar, Governor Tambuwal of PDP, was clearly in the lead with 489,558 votes ahead of Aliyu of the APC, who had polled 486,145 votes.

The election however, ended in a stalemate as the 3,413 votes margin was far less than the cancelled votes totalling 75,403.

Detail result of Sokoto supplementary election below:

Kware LGA:

APC – 211

PDP – 186

Tureta LGA:

APC – 56

PDP – 238

ISA LGA:

APC – 68

PDP – 98

Gwadabawa LGA:

APC – 187

PDP – 163

Yabo LGA:

APC – 110

PDP – 106

Dange-Shuni LGA:

APC – 626

PDP – 626

Sokoto South LGA:

APC – 313

PDP – 278

Bodinga LG

APC – 299

PDP – 309

Binji LGA:

APC – 517

PDP – 1,039

Wamakko LGA:

APC – 417

PDP – 221

Rabbah LGA:

APC – 1,411

PDP – 1,319

Wurno LGA:

APC – 904

PDP – 609

Ilella LGA:

APC – 632

PDP – 607

Gudu LGA:

APC – 211

PDP – 176

Silame LGA:

APC – 504

PDP – 834

Sokoto North LGA:

APC – 2,212

PDP – 1,783

Tambuwal LGA:

APC – 1,392

PDP – 1,644

Shagari LGA:

APC – 242

PDP – 263

Sabon Birni LGA:

APC – 1,023

PDP – 887

Gada LG:

APC – 5,548

PDP – 4,336

Goronyo LGA:

APC – 1,433

PDP – 1,265

Kebbe LGA:

APC – 7,173

PDP – 5,457