Governor Aminu Tambuwal of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has scored the highest votes in the Sokoto State governorship election after polling a total of 512,002 from both the March 9 first ballot and yesterday’s supplementary election.
Ahmad Aliyu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) came close behind with 511,660, losing to his erstwhile principal with just 342 votes.
Mr Aliyu was Mr Tambuwal’s deputy governor. Both men were of the APC until Mr Tambuwal defected to the PDP.
The results of all the local governments where supplementary elections were held in Sokoto have now been announced at the state collation centre.
The Resident Electoral Officer, Prof. Sadiq Musa, had said the declaration of the winner was based on simple majority.
Declaring Tambuwal the winner of the polls, the returning officer said: ”I, Fatimah Muktar, hereby certify that I was the returning officer for Sokoto state governorship election held on 23rd of March, 2019.
“That the election was contested and the candidates received the following ….. votes, that Aminu Tambuwal having satisfied the constitutional requirements, is hereby declared the winner of the election.”