Our reporter| The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi winner of the presidential election in Plateau and Nasarawa State.
In Plateau, Obi won in eleven out of the 17 Local Government Areas of the State, while Tinubu and Atiku won three LGAs respectively.
The Labour Party candidate won in Barkin Ladi, Riyom, Jos East, Langtang North, Bokkos, Mangu, Bassa, Jos South, Shendam, Pankshin and Jos North LGAs, while the candidate of the ruling APC, Bola Tinubu, won in Wase, Kanam and Kanke LGAs and PDPs, Atiku Abubakar won in Quaan Pan, Langtang South and Mikang LGAs.
Declaring the results, the State Returning Officer for the Presidential election, Prof Shehu Abdulrahman, said the Labour Party candidate polled 466, 272 votes.
The candidate of the ruling APC, Tinubu got 307, 195 votes, and the PDP’s Atiku scored 243, 808 votes.
He commended all agents and other critical stakeholders for conducting themselves in an orderly manner throughout the process, urging them to do same in subsequent elections.
In his remarks, the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Oliver Agundu commended the security agencies for their efforts in ensuring a hitch free exercise, and urged them to maintain their support to the commission in their forthcoming polls.
He also commended the media for their professional conduct in reporting the exercise.
Meanwhile, in Nasarawa, Peter Obi of LP won the presidential election.
With 191,361 as announced at the national collation centre on Monday night, Obi got the highest number of votes, followed by PDP’s 147,093, and APC’s 172,922.
The NNPP came a distant fourth with 12,715 votes.
The total number of registered voters stood at 1,899,244; accredited voters were 562,464; valid votes were 540,566, while 16,371 votes were rejected.
-Atiku wins in Bauchi
Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was on Monday declared winner of the presidential election in Bauchi state.
Abubakar scored a total of 426,607 votes to defeat his closest contender, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who had 316,694 votes.
Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) got 72,103 votes while Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) polled 27,373 votes.
Abdulkarim Mohammed, the state collation officer, announced the final results on Monday at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headquarters in Bauchi, the state capital.
The total number of registered voters in the state was put at 2,749,268 while accredited voters totalled 899,769.
The valid votes were 853,516; rejected votes, 29,030, while total votes cast stood at 882,546.
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