The candidate of the All Progressives Congress, President Muhammadu Buhari, has won the presidential election held on Saturday in Sokoto State.
Buhari defeated the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, by 490,333 votes to 3761,604 votes.
The result from Sokoto State was the sixth to be announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission out of nine left.
The result from 27 States and the Federal Capital Territory had earlier been announced before the Commission took a break to reconvene at about 8:30pm.