BREAKING: Obi Wins FCT With Wide Margin

Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, has won the presidential election in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.

Obi polled a total of 281,717 votes while Bola Tinubu of the ruling APC polled 90,902 votes and Atiku Abubakar of the PDP got 74,199 votes.

The Labour Party candidate defeated his closes challenger with 190815 votes.

The Federal Capital Territory has six area councils—Gwagwalada, Abaji, Kwali, Gwagwalada, Bwari and Abuja Municipal.

Out of the six area councils, Labour Party won four, while the APC won two.

Mr Obi’s largest victory was in Abuja Municipal (AMAC), where he secured over 70 per cent of the votes cast and defeated his closest challenger with over 140,000 votes.

In AMAC, the LP candidate polled 170,392 votes to defeat Bola Tinubu of the APC who polled 29,596 votes and Atiku Abubakar of the PDP who scored 26,407 votes.