#NigeriaDecides: Atiku Wins Kaduna, Defeats Tinubu In El-Rufai’s State

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has been declared the winner of last Saturday’s presidential election in Kaduna State.

Recall that Kaduna is an APC-governed state led by Governor Nasir El-Rufai. The APC chieftain, however, could not deliver his state to the party’s presidential candidate.

Results declared by the Returning Officer in the state showed that Atiku polled 554,360 ahead of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who scored 399,293 to come second.

The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, came third in the state’s result with 294,494 votes, Naija News understands.

As declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Obi won in seven Local Government Areas of Chikun, Kaura, Kajuru, Jaba, Kachia, Jema’a and Zango-Kataf, while Tinubu won in troubled Birnin-Gwari as well as Sanga LGA, the home country of the State Deputy Governor, Dr Hadiza Balarabe.

Atiku, however, swept the votes in 14 LGAs, including Giwa, Kauru, Lere, Ikara, Kagarko, Zaria, Sabon-Gari, Makarfi, and Kaduna South, Kudan, Igabi, Kaduna North, Kubau and Soba.

El-Rufai’s Son Wins National Assembly Seat In Kaduna

Meanwhile, Mohammed Bello El-rufai, has emerged winner of the House of Representatives seat in the Kaduna North Local Government Area of the state on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Naija News reports that the APC candidate is the eldest son of Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State

The returning officer, Professor Muhammad Magaji Garba, announced that El-rufai polled 51,052 to defeat the incumbent member, Suleiman Samaila Abdu of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP who polled 34,808.

While Aliyu Muhammad Ahmad of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) scored 10,148, and Shehu Mohammed Faisal of the Labour Party scored 7531.