..Won in 24 local govts
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has won the presidential election in Borno State.
Borno is the home state of vice presidential candidate of the APC, Senator Kashim Shettima.
Tinubu was declared the winner of the election at the state collation center on Tuesday.
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Of the 27 local government areas, where the election was held Saturday, Tinubu won 24 and lost the 4 to Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
The state collation officer, Prof. Jude Rabo, announced the result of the election at Sir Kashim Ibrahim College of Education, in Maiduguri.
The collation officer, who is also the Vice-Chancellor of Federal University Wukari, announced that Tinubu scored a total of 252, 282 to defeat all other candidates.
He announced that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Atiku Abubakar, scored 190,921 votes, while the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) candidate, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and Labor Party (LP) candidate, Peter Obi, scored a total of 4626 and 7,205 votes, respectively.
The total number of registered voters as collated was 2,493,337
Total number of accredited voters 299,543
Total number of rejected votes was 32,658
Total number of votes cast — 519,431
OFFICIAL INEC RESULTS FOR BORNO FROM INEC
A – 541
AA – 915
AAC – 349
