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Peter Obi Floors Atiku, Tinubu In Adamawa Polling Unit

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The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has won a polling unit in Adamawa, the home state of the presidential flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar.

Obi polled the highest votes among the key candidates at polling unit 35, located at Karewa, Yola North Local Government Area of Adamawa state.

While Obi garnered 120 votes, Atiku came second with 82 votes, and the All Progressives Congress (APC) standard bearer, Bola Tinubu, garnered 26 votes. Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) got 2 votes to come third.

Naija News reports that Tinubu, Atiku, Obi, and Kwakwanso are among the 18 candidates contesting the presidential election to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari.

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Others include Adewole Adebayo of the Social Democratic Party, SDP; Dumebi Kaachikwu of the African Democratic Congress, ADC; Kola Abiola of the Peoples Redemption Party, PRP; and Omoyele Sowere of the African Action Congress, AAC.

Also in the race are Felix Osakwe, National Rescue Movement NRM; Prof Peter Umeadi, All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA; Dan Nwanyanwu, Zenith Labour Party, ZLP; Oluwafemi Adenuga, Boot Party, BP; Christopher Imumolen, Accord; Hamza Al-Mustapha, Action Alliance, AA; Sani Yabagi Yusuf, African Democratic Party, ADP; Malik Ibrahim Ado, Young Progressive Party, YPP; and Osita Nnadi, Action People’s Party, APP.

The only female candidate jostling for the highest political seat is Chichi Ojei of the Allied Peoples Movement, APM.

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Ige Olugbenga is a fine-grained journalist. He loves the smell of a good lead and has a penchant for finding out something nobody else knows.