It’s Official: Tambuwal wins re-election as Sokoto State Governor
The Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal of the Peoples Democratic Party , has been re-elected for a second term.
In the supplementary election, Mr Tambuwal polled 24,444 votes. He scored 489,558 votes in the inconclusive first ballot, bringing his total to 512,002. Mr Tambuwal narrowly defeated his former deputy with 342 votes, helped by the lead he had established in the first ballot of March 9. Sokoto has 1,887,767 registered voters, 56.5 per cent of whom turned out for the governorship election as the number of total votes cast shows.
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