THE presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has won Taraba State in North-East geopolitical zone.
He scored 189,017 ahead of Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) who polled 146,315 and Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who got 135,165 votes.
The collation officer for Zamfara State presidential election, Professor Kashim Shehu of Federal University of Birnin Kebbi, announced the results in Gusau, the state capital, in the early hours of Tuesday.
Shehu noted that the APC’s Tinubu won 12 out of 14 Local Government Areas in the state, while Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party won two.
According to the results announced at the presidential election collation centre, Tinubu polled 298,396 votes.
The former Lagos State governor was closely followed by Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with 193,978 votes.
