In the presidential election in Zamfara, Nigeria’s northwestern state, the ruling party candidate won a comfortable majority.
Bola Tinubu of the APC received 298,396 votes, while Atiku Abubakar of the PDP received 193,978 votes.
The predominantly Muslim state is one of several dealing with an epidemic of kidnapping for ransom.
The Labour Party’s Peter Obi failed to secure many votes, only getting 1,660, trailing behind former Kano governor Rabiu Kwankwaso, presidential candidate of the NNPP, who got 4,044.
