President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress is leading Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party in results collated from 16 out of the 17 local government areas in Yobe State.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the results submitted to the collation centre under the supervision of Prof. Abubakar Gundiri, the state Collation Officer, had Buhari scoring 42,485 votes against Abubakar’s 3,295 votes in Bade Local Government Area and in Bursari, Buhari had 22,253 votes, while Abubakar scored 2,555 votes.
In Fune Local Government, Buhari polled 43,948 as against 5,707 votes scored by Abubakar, while in Buhari scored 42,448 votes as against the PDP candidate’s 5,522 votes
Similarly, in Giedam, Buhari received 16,338 votes, while Abubakar scored 613 votes only, while in Gulani, Buhari scored 22,858 votes as against Abubakar’s 2,612 votes.
In Jakusko, Buhari scored 34,424 votes as against Abubakar’s 3,390 votes, and in Nguru, Buhari got 36,433 votes to beat Abubakar, who polled 5,352 votes, while in Potiskum, Buhari got 62,101 votes to trounce Abubakar who scored 4,331 votes.
In Yunusari, Buhari garnered 22,837 votes to beat Abubakar who polled 939 votes, and in Yusufari Buhari scored 22,157 votes as against Abubakar’s 3,567 votes
Gujba Local Government showed Buhari got 12,227 votes, while Abubakar scored 325 votes and in Tarmuwa Local Government, Buhari got 12,122 votes as against Abubakar’s 1,269 votes.
In Damaturu Local Government Area, Buhari scored 35,772 votes to beat Abubakar who got 2,099 votes, while in Karasuwa Local Government, Buhari polled 22,377 votes to beat Abubakar who got 3,692 votes.
The President also scored 14,619 votes to beat Abubakar who scored 2,315 votes in Machina Local Government Area.