Atiku defeats Buhari in Edo

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar narrowly won the presidential election in
Edo state with 7849 votes more than his main rival, President
Muhammadu Buhari.

The State Collation Officer for the Presidential election, Prof.
Ndowa Lale announced at the INEC headquarters in Benin that Atiku
scored 275,691 votes, while Buhari of the All Progressives Congress
scored 267,842 votes.

However, Buhari beat Atiku in the number of councils won. He won
in 10 while Atiku won in eight.

Lale who is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of
Port-Harcourt, said the total number of registered voters in state
was 2,150,127 while the total number of accredited voters was
604,915.

Lale noted that the number of valid votes was 560,711 while
38,517 votes were rejected.