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Atiku defeats Tinubu, Obi, Kwankwaso in Taraba

ByAbdulrahaman Taye Damilola

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won Taraba state in the presidential election with a total votes of 189,017.

Atiku defeated his main rivals Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Peter Obi of the Labour Party and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).

Mr Obi polled 146,315 votes to come second while Mr Tinubu got 135,165 to emerge third. Mr Kwankwaso of the NNPP got 12,818 votes.

The total registered voters in the state were 1941549 while a total of 521442 voters were accredited with total valid votes standing at 499358.

The number of rejected vote cast is 18460 while the number of votes cast is 517818

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Abdulrahaman Taye Damilola is a Kwara-based journalist. He is the head of news and current affairs department at The Informant247.

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