By Laleye Dipo in Minna
President Muhammad Buhari of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC is leading in the results of the presidential election released so far by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
President Buhari has won in all the 13 local governments so far released.
This is even as the Senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC Alhaji Sani Musa has been declared winner of the senatorial contest for Niger East senatorial race by INEC.
Sani Musa defeated his closet Peoples Democratic Party PDP challenger Alhaji Ibrahim Ishyaku SAN by polling 229,415 votes to Ishyaku’s 116,143.
The result was announced Monday morning by the collation officer Professor Audu Jiga
The Collation of results for the presidential elections in Niger State being supervised by the Presidential Election Collation Officer Professor Freeman Mary Angela was suspended early this morning and would continue at 11:00 am
The break followed requests by stakeholders that they needed to take some rest.
Below are the results so far collated.
Munya LGA
APC – 13, 717
PDP – 8,530
Edati LGA
APC – 15,961
PDP – 8,168
Bosso LGA
APC – 29,093
PDP – 9,282
Katcha LGA
APC – 16,107
PDP – 5,668
Gurara
APC – 14,377
PDP – 10,210
Rafi LGA
APC – 31,661
PDP – 7,029
Suleja LGA
APC – 30,401
PDP – 17,806
Tafa LGA
APC – 15,176
PDP – 12,778
Agwara
APC – 8,811
PDP – 5,587
Magama
APC – 22,529
PDP – 10,531
Paikoro LGA
APC – 24,690
PDP – 12,494
Chanchaga LGA
APC – 46,886
PDP – 14,220
Shiroro LGA
APC – 29,213
PDP – 10,215
The collation of 12 others would hold this morning.
