The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for governor in Sokoto State’s recently completed Saturday election, Hon. Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto, has been named the state’s new governor.
At the INEC collation center in Sokoto on Sunday night, Professor Armayau Hamisu, the returning officer, declared Ahmed Aliyu to have won the election legitimately. The APC candidate had received 453,661 votes, beating out Mallam Saidu Umar, the candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who received 404,632 votes.
Recall that Aliyu was the deputy governor to the incumbent Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal from 2015 to 2018, when he resigned from office over political difference with Tambuwal.
The Governor had defected to the PDP at the time while Aliyu refused to follow suit and stayed put in APC.
According to the declared results, Ahmed Aliyu won in 18 out of the 23 local government areas of the State.
He won in Binji, Wurno, Yabo, Gwadabawa, Rabah, Bodinga, Tangaza, Kware, Dange-Shuni, Sabon Birnin, Shagari, Illela, Gudu, Gada, Kebbe, Sokoto South, Wamakko and Sokoto North local government areas