PDP PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY: ATIKU FLOORS SARAKI, TAMBUWAL AND OTHERS

Former Vice-president and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Aspirant, Atiku Abubakar, as emerged as the party’s presidential candidate ahead of 2019 general elections.

The Fulani-born Waziri of Adamawa, businessman and politician defeated 11 other contestants polling 1,532 to clinch the ticket and therefore would be facing another tribesman, incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari,  Mr Donald Duke of Social Democratic Party (SDP) and some others in the February 2019 presidential election.

About 3,274 delegates were at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Port Harcourt and took part in the primary which produced the following results.

Atiku’s His closet rival, Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state, scored 693 votes.

Atiku Abubakar – 1,532

Aminu Tambuwal – 693

Bukola Saraki – 317

Sanator David Mark – 35

Sule Lamido – 96

Kabiru Turaki – 65

Donald Jang – 19

Datti Ahmed – 5

Attahiru Bafarawa – 48

Ibrahim Dankwanbo – 111

Ahmed Makarfi – 74

Rabiu Kwankwanso – 158

72-year-old Abubakar, a businessman, who served as the second elected vice-president of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007, on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), with President Olusegun Obasanjo.