Buhari floors Atiku in 7 Gombe local government areas

Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muhammadu Buhari is leading in seven out of 11 Local Government Areas LGAs of Gombe State, in the Presidential election conducted yesterday.

Buhari scored a total of 301,677 votes in the results of nine LGAs officially declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the Collation Centre.

On the other hand, his main challenger, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, polled 110,229 votes in the nine LGAs declared by the INEC.

With the results declared so far, Atiku is only leading in two LGAs.

The results of Akko and Funakaye LGAs are being awaited to round off the collation.

The results of the nine LGAs declared at the collation centre are;

Balanga LG

APC-29,697

PDP-14,614

Billiri LG

APC-15,331

PDP-21,328

Dukku LG

APC-32,010

PDP-7,437

Gombe LG

APC-86,162

PDP-7,634

Kwami LG

APC-36,317

PDP-6,614

Nafada LG

APC-15,417

PDP-5,792

Kaltungo LG

APC-20,944

PDP-20,733

Shomgom LG

APC-9,642

PDP-12,871

Yamaltu/Deba LG

APC-56,157

PDP-13,208