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
