Ahmed Aliyu defeats PDP's Saidu Umar to become Sokoto governor-elect The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ahmed Aliyu, has been declared the winner of Saturday’s governorship election in Sokoto State. The State Collation Officer, Bichi Amaya’u, who announced the result in Sokoto on Sunday, said Aliyu polled a total of 453,661 votes to defeat his closest rival and candidate of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), Saidu Umar, who polled 404,632. Aliyu, an ally of a former governor of Sokoto State and sitting senator, Aliyu Wamakko, was the deputy to Governor...