President Muhammad Buhari has scored 85 per cent of the total votes
cast at the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly
Elections held on Saturday.
Announcing the results, the Returning Officer in Yobe Professor Abubukar
Musa Gundiri of the Federal University Wukari said the election was
conducted under a peaceful atmosphere.
Buhari who contested under All Progressives Congress (APC) platform scored 497,914 votes out of the total 586,137 votes cast, representing 85 percent, while Atiku Abubakar of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) got 50,763 votes representing 8.6 per cent while the other political parties shared the remaining 6.4 percent.
The collation which commenced on Sunday at the state capital was witnessed by the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Commissioner of Police, other security agents, Election observers, party agents, among others.
Below is the breakdown of the presidential results from local government between APC and PDP:
1. Bursari APC 22,253 PDP 2,555
2. Jakusko APC 34,424 PDP 3,390
3. Gulani APC 22,858 PDP 2,612
4. Bade APC 42,485 PDP 3,295
5. Nguru APC 36,433 PDP 5,352
6. Yunusari APC 23,837 PDP 939
7. Potiskum APC 62,101 PDP 4,331
8. Fune APC 43,948 PDP 5,707
9. Yusufari APC 22,157 PDP 3,567
10. Fika APC 42,488 PDP , 5522
11. Geidam APC 16,338 PDP 613
12. Tarmuwa APC 12,122 PDP 1,269
13. Damaturu APC 35,772 PDP 2,099
14. Machina APC 14,619 PDP 2,315
15. Karasuwa APC 22,377 PDP 3,692
16. Gujba APC 12,227 PDP 325
17. Nangere APC 31475 PDP 3180
