Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, has floored his counterparts in  the Saturday’s presidential election in Nasarawa State.

Obi polled 191,361 votes in the contest to defeat his closest rival, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC who got 172,922 votes while Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP secured 147, 093 votes.

The presidential election results were collated and announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC), collation officer in Nasarawa State, Prof. Ishaya Tanko.

Tanko, who is the Vice-Chancellor University of Jos, Plateau state, said the NNPP Presidential Candidate got a total of 12,715 votes.

According to the Collation Officer, the total registered votes in the state were 2,552,716 while the total valid ballots were 540,566.

He, however, maintained that the accredited voters in the state were 562,464 but the total votes cast were 556,937 while the rejected votes were 16,371.