Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Atiku Abubakar, has won the Saturday’s presidential election held in his home State, Adamawa.
Mr. Abubakar polled 412, 266 to defeat President Muhammadu Buhari, his closest challenger in the state, who scored 377,488.
But, Mr. Buhari won 11 of the state’s 21 local government areas, while Mr Abubakar picked the remaining 10. The results show a difference of 34,778 between them.
The outcome, despite its closeness, effectively flipped Adamawa back to the PDP, four years after Mr Buhari’s All Progressives Congress won it by over 100,000 votes in 2015 presidential election.
Although Mr Abubakar was tipped to narrowly win the state in the lead up to the February 23 election, fears that he may not clinch it gripped his supporters after he lost his polling unit to Mr Buhari on election day.