Atiku Bags 68,823 Votes to Decimate Amaechi and Hayatu-Deen in Sokoto ADC Presidential Primary as Option A4 Sparks Wild Grassroots Turnout

The political realignment shaping the opposition space has delivered a monumental statement of intent from the Seat of the Caliphate. Former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has cruised to a crushing landslide victory in the Sokoto State African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential primary election, completely flattening his rival contenders in an open show of grassroots dominance.

The official results, announced today Monday, May 25, 2026, by the State Presidential Primary Collation Officer, Prof. Aminu Abubakar, left political watchdogs stunned by the sheer margin of victory. Out of 69,434 total ballots cast across the state’s 23 Local Government Areas, Atiku locked down an astronomical 68,823 votes. His closest challenger, former PDP presidential aspirant Muhammad Hayatu-Deen, managed to scrap together only 319 votes, while the former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, left the portal with a meager 292 votes.

The operational manual of the election adopted the transparent Option A4 voting method, forcing accredited party faithful to stand in line in the open air to register their support. Atiku, who defected to the ADC as part of a massive coalition shield designed to halt a single-party drift ahead of the 2027 transition cycle, praised the hitch-free process after casting his own ballot earlier in the day at his ancestral Ajiya Ward in Jimeta, Yola.

The collation exercise at the Sokoto party secretariat functioned as a heavy display of elite political coordination. Prominent regional heavyweights who recently moved their machineries into the ADC, including former Sokoto Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal and former Deputy Governor Manir Muhammad Dan’iya stood alongside State Chairman Abdullahi Maigwandu and officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to witness the data entry. Their visible presence sends a clear message that the state’s ultimate political gravity has successfully synchronized behind the veteran politician.

By establishing an absolute monopoly over the Sokoto trenches, Atiku has taken a giant step toward securing the party’s national ticket, with parallel landslide results already filtering in from nearby Zamfara and Yobe states. While Rotimi Amaechi and his loyalists continue to push their campaigns across southern hubs like Rivers State, the crushing momentum generated in the North-West indicates that Atiku’s technical rescue of his lifelong presidential ambition is moving ahead with an unbreakable layer of grassroots momentum.