Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has failed to deliver his Local Government Area to the ruling All Progressives Congress in Saturday’s presidential election.
Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, won in Zaria Local Government where El-Rufai and Uba Sani, the APC Governorship candidate in the March election, hail from.
While Atiku polled, 62,260 votes, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the APC, garnered 41,432 votes while Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigerian Peoples Party came third with 8,729 votes and Peter Obi of Labour Party trailed with 3,634 votes.
Of the 16 local government results announced so far, APC has won only one, while the PDP has emerged victorious in nine and the Labour Party has won six.
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