Election 2023: Atiku wins in Buhari’s State, Katsina

The Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party Atiku Abubakar has won the presidential election in President Muhammadu Buhari’s state, Katsina.

Bola Tinubu of the All-Progressives Congress, who received 482,283 votes, and other contenders were edged out by Abubakar, who received 489,045 votes overall.

With 69,386 votes, NNPP candidate Rabiu Kwankwaso finished third while Peter Obi, the candidate for the Labour Party followed with 6,376 votes.

At the INEC Presidential Election Collation Center in Katsina, Professor Mua’zu Abubakar Gusau, the state’s returning officer and vice chancellor of the Federal University Gusau, pronounced Mr. Abubakar the winner of the election in the state.

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Thirteen of the state’s 34 LGAs were won by the PDP candidate, while the APC’s Tinubu won 21 LGAs. Even though he won fewer LGAs, Mr. Abubakar was able to win in the state which supported President Buhari in 2015 and 2019 and also has an APC governor.

To pull off a victory in the state, Mr Abubakar won Batsari, Mashi, Kurfi, Batagarawa, Dutsinma, Kusada, Mani, Kankia, Kankara, Bakori, Jibia, Katsina and Safana LGAs and secured significant votes in the other LGAs.

APGA – 1,391, NNPP – 69,386, Labour Party – 6,376, PRP – 1,986, SDP – 339, YPP – 1,029 and ZLP – and 371 votes, respectively.

The total number of registered voters in the state was 3,516,719 but only about a third of that number, 1,097,663 were accredited to vote.

Elections in a few polling places in the LGAs of Baure, Danmusa, Dutsinma, Funtua, Kafur, Kankara, Katsina, Kurfi, Kusada, Mai’adua, Malumfashi, Mashi, Sabuwa, and Safana were canceled, according to the state’s INEC Returning Officer.

The cancellations were due to thuggery, insecurity, resistance, violence or over voting and obstruction.