Nigeria, March 10 -- The governor of Jigawa State, Muhammad Badaru, has been declared winner of Saturday's governorship election in the state.

Mr Badaru, a businessman, will serve another four years in office after defeating his major challenger Aminu Ringim in a landslide victory.

The returning officer, Azubike Nwankwo, announced that Muhammad Badaru polled 810, 933 votes to defeat his closest opponent, Aminu Ibrahim of the people's Democratic Party, who got 288, 356 votes.

"Mr Badaru having scored the highest number of votes is hereby declared returned elected," he said.

Mr Badaru is defeating Mr Ibrahim for the second time. In 2015, Mr Badaru got 648,046 votes against the PDP's Mr Ibrahim who scored 479,447 votes.

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