The Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate in Saturday’s, Atiku Abubakar, has has won in Sokoto State with a total of 288,679 votes.
The All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Bola Tinubu, scored a total number of 285,444 votes to place second, while candidates of the Labour Party, Peter Obi and New Nigerian Peoples Party, Rabiu Kwankwaso, came third and fourth with a total of 6,568 and 1,300 votes respectively.
The state’s returning officer, Prof. Kabiru Bala, the Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, invited party representatives to sign the results.
Responding, the Director General of the PDP campaign committee, Yusuf Suleiman, urged the INEC to investigate more than 400 polling units cancelled in the state.
According to Suleiman, about 300,000 voters in the state have been disenfranchised and their votes could go for either of the political parties including APC, PDP, LP or even the NNPP.
The Director General of the APC presidential campaign council, Maigari Dingyadi, said politicians should not quote figures not from the INEC.
Dingyadi who is also the Minister for Police Affairs, however, urged INEC to look into the circumstances that led to the cancellation of the results.
Meanwhile, the returning officer disclosed that a total number of 133 registration areas were affected with 471 polling units in the cancellation.
He said the affected areas also include 301,499 registered voters with 254,902 Permanent Voter Cards collected.
