{"id":85069,"date":"2023-02-27T06:50:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T11:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africatodaynewsnewyork.com\/?p=85069"},"modified":"2023-02-27T06:50:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T11:50:10","slug":"atiku-wins-landslide-in-gombe-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africatodaynewsnewyork.com\/2023\/02\/27\/atiku-wins-landslide-in-gombe-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Atiku Wins Landslide In Gombe Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nigeria\u2019s former Vice President and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peoples_Democratic_Party_(Nigeria)\">People\u2019s Democratic Party<\/a> (PDP) flagbearer in last Saturday\u2019s Presidential election, Atiku Abubakar has recorded a landslide going by the result released from all the eleven Local Government Areas of Gombe State.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Announcing the results at about 01:00 am on Monday, the Gombe State Collation Officer: Professor Maimuna Waziri, Vice Chancellor (VC) of the Federal University Gashua said, Atiku who runs his ticket with Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, polled the highest votes of 319,123.<\/p>\n<p>The Presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu came a distant second with 146,977 votes in an election that was reported to be generally peaceful all over the State.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>Read Also: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/africatodaynewsnewyork.com\/2023\/02\/15\/2023-pdp-g5-still-very-alive-will-act-on-feb-25-wike\/\">2023: PDP G5 Still Very Alive, Will Act On Feb 25 \u2013 Wike<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>During the announcement of the results, Professor Maimuna said total Registered voters in the State stood at 1,549,243 while accredited Voters were 542,997.<\/p>\n<p>She also explained that the total votes casts stood at 533,778 while the total valid votes stood at 510,043. The rejected votes during the election was 23,735.<\/p>\n<p>In the same election results, the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, polled 26,160 votes while that of the New Nigeria People\u2019s Party (NNPP), Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso got 10,520 votes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/africatodaynewsnewyork.com\/\"><strong>Africa Today News, New York<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s former Vice President and People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) flagbearer in last Saturday\u2019s Presidential election, Atiku Abubakar has recorded a landslide going by the result released from all the eleven Local Government Areas of Gombe State. Announcing the results at about 01:00 am on Monday, the Gombe State Collation Officer: Professor Maimuna Waziri, Vice Chancellor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":85070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15801],"class_list":["post-85069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-atiku-abubakar","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Atiku Wins Landslide In Gombe Presidential Election<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nigeria\u2019s former Vice President and People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) flagbearer in last Saturday\u2019s Presidential election, Atiku Abubakar\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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