Presidential Poll: Tinubu Wins Kwara

The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has been declared the winner of Saturday’s presidential election in Kwara state, winning in all 16 Local Government Areas of the state.

Tinubu garnered 263,572 votes to defeat his closest challenger and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who came a distant second with 136,909 votes.

Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) scored 31,166 to come third, while Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the NNPP scored 3,141 of the votes cast in the state.

The number of registered voters for the election was 1,695,928, while the number of accredited voters was 497,519.

Total valid votes were 469,971, voided votes were 26,712, and total votes cast were 496,683.

Prof. Paul Annune from Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University, Makurdi (formerly the Federal University of Agriculture), was the Collation officer for the election in Kwara state.

The 16 local government areas include Ilorin West, Ilorin East, Ilorin South, Asa, Moro, Kaiama, Patigi and Baruteen local government areas.

Others are Edu, Ifelodun, Irepodun, Oke-Ero, Isin, Oyun, Offa and Ekiti local government areas.