The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has defeated his main rival Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Katsina State.
The result was announced by Muazu Abubakar, the Katsina State Returning Officer.
Katsina is the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari, a member of the APC. It is also the home state of the APC vice presidential place holder, Ibrahim Masari.
Mr Abubakar said Atiku polled a total vote of 489,045 ahead of Mr Tinubu who got 482, 283 making a difference of 6,762. Rabiu Kwankwaso of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) got 69,386 votes.
Although Mr Tinubu won in 21 local government areas, Atiku, who won in 13 areas went ahead to defeat the APC candidate. The state has 34 local government areas.
Although the former governor of Lagos State won in Daura, Kafur and Dutsi local government areas where Messrs Buhari, Masari and Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika, hail from, it was not enough to secure victory over Atiku in the state.
Mr Buhari (Daura), that of the state governor, Aminu Masari (Kafur) and minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika (Dutsi), Mr Tinubu failed to win the state.
Atiku, an indigene of Adamawa State, had repeatedly referred to Katsina State as his second home because of his relationship with the late Shehu Yar’adu’a, a retired major general, who introduced him to politics.
In Katsina metropolis, where Mr Yar’adua hailed from, Atiku got 45,390 while Mr Tinubu got 15, 953.
Below is the breakdown of the votes for APC and PDP according to local government areas:
MATAZU LGA
APC – 12008
PDP – 9644
KAITA LGA
APC: 14,595
PDP: 11,793
MUSAWA LGA
APC- 14,360
PDP- 10603
INGAWA LGA
APC- 12,315
PDP- 12,152
CHARANCI LGA
APC- 12,779
PDP- 8020
DUTSI LGA
APC- 9258
PDP- 8074
BATSARI LGA
APC 7,017
PDP 8,889
SANDAMU LGA
APC – 13681
PDP – 10434
ƊANDUME LGA
APC – 15062
PDP – 10718
MASHI LGA
APC – 12868
PDP – 16085
DANMUSA LGA
APC – 11259
PDP – 7294
RIMI LGA
APC – 16759
PDP – 15318
KURFI LGA
APC 11203
PDP 12528
BATAGARAWA LGA
APC 13950
PDP 16987
DUTSINMA LGA
APC 13233
PDP 17917
KUSADA LGA
APC- 7,442
PDP- 10,990
MAI’ADUA LGA
APC- 19,098
PDP- 14,096
BINDAWA lGA
APC- 16,578
PDP- 12, 582
KANKIYA LGA
APC- 10,658
PDP- 17,426
BAURE LGA
APC- 21,661
PDP- 16,820
KANKARA LGA
APC- 14,456
PDP- 22,035
MANI LGA
APC- 14,334
PDP- 18, 998
ZANGO LGA
APC- 13,891
PDP- 10,791
DANJA LGA
APC- 16,202
PDP- 14,004
BAKORI LGA
APC- 15036
PDP- 20,070
FASKARI LGA
APC- 17,180
PDP- 15,667
JIBIA LGA
APC- 10690
PDP- 13,761
KAFUR LGA
APC- 23,517
PDP- 13,167
DAURA LGA
APC- 16,889
PDP- 12,913
KATSINA LGA
APC- 15,953
PDP- 45,390
SABUWA LGA
APC- 10,207
PDP- 7287
SAFANA LGA.
APC- 7,683
PDP- 7,989
MALUMFASHI LGA
APC- 21,008
PDP- 19,892
FUNTUA LGA
APC- 19,453
PDP- 18,711