By NELSON DAFE

Labour Party Presidential Candidate Peter Obi has won three of the five local government areas so far declared in Kaduna State: Kaura, Giwa and Kajuru.

Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won two: Soba and Makarfi.

The returning officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Kaduna State, Prof Mohammed Zayyan Umar, announced the results.

INEC is scheduled to continue the collation of results in the remaining 19 LGAs by 9am Monday.

Kaduna State has 23 local government areas and elections took place in all of them.

See de results here:

LGA: Giwa

Registered voters: 149,456

Accredited voters: 48118

APC - 19,922 LP - 565 NNPP – 3,114 PDP - 22,302

Valid votes: 46,435

Rejected: 1,662

Total votes cast: 48,097

LGA: Kaura

Registered voters: 101,665

Accredited voters: APC - 1,847 LP - 25,744 NNPP – 320 PDP - 7,847

Valid votes: 37,222

Rejected: 694

Total votes cast: 36,916

LGA: Kajuru

Registered voters: 92,668

Accredited voters: 30,652

APC - 3,940 LP - 14,875 NNPP – 1,221 PDP - 9,253

Valid votes: 29,839

Rejected votes: 800

Total votes cast: 30,639

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