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Atiku Narrowly Wins Edo State With 7849 Votes #NigeriaDecides2019

 

The Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar,
narrowly won the presidential election in Edo state with 7,849 votes
more than his main rival, President Muhammadu Buhari.

The State
Collation Officer for the Presidential election, Ndowa Lale, announced
at the Independent National Electoral Commission headquarters in Benin
that Mr Atiku scored 275,691 votes, while Mr Buhari of the All
Progressives Congress scored 267,842 votes.

However, Mr Buhari beat Mr Atiku in the number of councils won. He won in 10 while Atiku won in eight.

Mr
Lale, who is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Port-Harcourt,
said the total number of registered voters in state was 2,150,127 while
the total number of accredited voters was 604,915.

Mr Lale noted that the number of valid votes was 560,711 while 38,517 votes were rejected.

He further said the total number of votes cast was 599,228.

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