The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, as the winner of the presidential election conducted last Saturday in Bayelsa State.

The former Vice President polled a total of 68, 818 votes to defeat his closest opponent and the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, who scored a total score of 49, 975 votes.

While Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) polled a total of 42, 572 votes to clinch the third position.

The State Returning Officer and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin, Prof. Lilian Salami, announced the summary of the results at the end of the collation of the results at the Prof. Mahmood Yakubu Media Centre, Yenagoa INEC office, on Monday night.

Salami stated that the PDP presidential candidate emerged winner of the election in the state after the collation of results from the eight local government areas.

#NigeriaDecides: Atiku Wins In Kebbi, Defeat Tinubu, Peter Obi, Kwankwaso

INEC has announced Atiku as the winner of the presidential election conducted in Kebbi State last Saturday.

The former Vice President polled 288,175 votes to defeat hithe closest opponent, Tinubu, who polled 248,088 votes.

Obi, emerged third with 10,682 votes while the candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples’ Party (NNPP), Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, trailed behind with 5,038 votes.

The Returning Officer for the state’s election, Professor Yusuf Sa’idu, confirmed this at the collation centre, noting the total number of registered voters in the state as 1,983,985 while the number of accredited voters is 599,201.