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