Tinubu declared winner in Kwara State 

Presidential Candidate of the All-Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has been declared winner of Saturday’s election in 16 Local Government Areas of Kwara State.

Tinubu garnered 263,572 votes to defeat his closet challenger and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who came a distant second with 136,909 votes.

The number of registered voters for the election were 1,695,928 while the accredited voters were 497,519.

Total valid votes were 469,971, rejected, 26,712 and total votes cast were 496,683.

Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) scored 31,166 to come third while Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the NNPP scored 3,141 of the votes cast in the state.

Prof Paul Annune from Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University, Makurdi (formerly Federal University of Agriculture), was the Collation officer for the Kwara.

The sixteen local governments include Ilorin West, Ilorin East, Ilorin South, Asa, Moro, Kaiama, Patigi and Baruteen local government areas.

Others are Edu, Ifelodun, Irepodun, Oke-Ero, Isin, Oyun, Offa and Ekiti local government areas.

Ekiti Local Government
APC 5739
PDP 3760
SDP 386
LP 721

Isin LOcal Government
APC 4484
PDP 2506
NNPP 31
LP 1419

Oke-Ero Local Government
APC 6016
PDP 3074
LP 592
NNPP 17

Ilorin East Local Government
APC 24264
PDP 13325
LP 2409
NNPP 132

Asa Local Government
APC 15123
PDP 10482
LP 678
NNPP 116

Offa Local Government
APC 19475
PDP 3508
LP 1444
NNPP 71

Oyun LGA
APC 8838
PDP 4298
LP 1867
NNPP 133

Irepodun LGA
APC 11545
PDP 6368
LP 3000
NNPP 113

Ilorin South LG
APC 21620
PDP 10806
LP 7274
NNPP 166

Patigi Local Government
APC 10,389
LP 727
NNPP 344
PDP 6395

Ilorin West Local Governments
APC 47784
PDP 29978
LP 5598
NNPP 436

Kaiama Local Government
APC 14580
PDP 6073
LP 435
NNPP 418

Ifelodun Local Government
APC 16369
PDP 6457
LP 2517
NNPP 98

Moro Local Government
APC 15287
PDP 6429
LP 959
NNPP 99

Edu Local Government
APC 18564
PDP 13249
LP 696
NNPP 816

Baruten Local Government
APC 23,495
PDP 10,201
LP 830
NNPP 139