The outgoing Speaker, House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has been declared the winner of Saturday governorship election conducted in Sokoto.
The Speaker defeated Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) candidate, Ambassador Abdallah Wali.
The State Returning Officer and Deputy Vice Chancellor of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Prof. Abdullahi Bagudu, announced the results on Sunday.
Announcing the final results collated from the 23 local government areas of the state, Prof Bagudu said out of 926, 682 total votes, only 32, 054 votes were invalidated.
Bagudu stated that out of 958,736 votes cast during the poll, the All Progressives Congress (APC), the platform on which Tambuwal contested scored 6747,609 votes while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) came second with 269, 074 votes.
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