Thursday, November 21, 2024

Obi Win Enugu, Take Lead To 12 States

The presidential aspirant of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, won Enugu State in the presidential election that took place on Saturday, giving him the lead in 12 states as of the time of filing this report.

According to the collation officer, Maduebibisi Ofor Igwe, 482,990 voters were accredited out of the 2,112,793 registered voters in the state.

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Meanwhile, Obi scored 428,640 to defeat Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress. (APC).

Atiku got 15,749 to come second behind in the state, while Tinubu got 4,772 to come third. New Nigerian Peoples Party’s Rabiu Kwankwaso came fourth in 1808.

Igwe said that a sum total of 482,990 voters were accredited out of the registered voters in the state. According to the collation officer, the number of valid votes is 456,424, while rejected votes were 12,467.

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