Atiku wipes the floor with Tinubu in Gombe

Nurudeen Shotayo 02:29 - 27 February 2023

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the PDP and Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the APC. (TheNiche)

The former Vice-President recorded a landslide victory against Tinubu, Obi, and Kwankwaso in Gombe State.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has clinched Gombe State with a wide margin in the ongoing presidential election.

Atiku dusted his closest rival, Tinubu, by scoring a whooping 319,123 votes out of the total votes cast in the North-East state on Saturday, February 25, 2023.

The APC presidential torchbearer was gasping for air in second place with 146,977 votes, while Peter Obi of Labour Party and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) recorded 26,160 and 10,520 votes to finish third and fourth respectively.

This victory moved Atiku one state within Tinubu who has won two out of the three states where presidential election results have been concluded as of the time of filing this report.

Earlier on, Pulse reported that the former Lagos State governor recorded a landslide victory against his competitors in Ekiti State by scooping majority votes cast in all the 16 local government areas of the state.