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El-Rufai floored his closest rival, Isa Ashiru of the Peoples Democratic Party with a margin of 231, 259 votes.

After the collation that lasted two days, El-Rufai was declared winner by Prof. Muhammed Bello, the state collation officer.


Bello said the incumbent governor polled a total of 1, 045, 427 while Ashiru polled 814, 168 votes. Meanwhile, from the results of the 23 local government areas of the state collated at the INEC headquarters in Kaduna, it showed that governor El-Rufai of the All Progressives Congress, APC won in 14 Local Government Areas.

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