The Independent National
Electoral Commission on Monday started the announcement of the results of
Saturday’s presidential election. As of the time of filing this report, INEC
had announced the result in 10 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
From INEC results so far,
it's clear that Buhari is leading...
The states are Ondo, Ekiti,
Gombe, Kwara, Kogi, Yobe, Abia, Osun, Nasarawa, Ebonyi, Enugu and the Federal
Capital Territory. The results were announced by the returning officers of the
states at the National Collation Centre in Abuja.
The presidential candidate
of the APC, Muhammadu Buhari, won in Ekiti, Nasarawa, Yobe, Kwara, Kogi and
Gombe, while his closest rival, Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, won in Ondo, Abia,
Ebonyi and the FCT.
However, some results
declared by collation officers in states which have not been taken to the
national collation centre in Abuja reveal that Buhari is in strong lead. The
states where Buhari is leading in this category include Bauchi, Lagos, Ogun,
Sokoto, Jigawa and Kaduna while Atiku has won in Adamawa and Plateau states.
Buhari wins in Kwara with
308,984 votes In Kwara State, Buhari won the election having scored 308,984
votes, as announced by INEC.
The result was announced on
Monday at the National Collation Centre, Abuja, by Prof. Abdullahi Bala, of the
Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State, who is the Collation
Officer for the election in Kwara.
Bala, while announcing the
result, said Atiku scored 138,984 votes.
Atiku floors Buhari in
Adamawa However, Atiku was declared the winner of the election in his home
state of Adamawa.
Declaring the result on
Monday in Yola, the Presidential Election Returning Officer for Adamawa, Prof.
Andrew Yakubu, said Abubakar scored 410,266 votes to defeat the APC candidate
who scored 378,078 votes.
INEC announces Buhari
winner in Ekiti
INEC however announced
Buhari of the APC as winner of Saturday’s election in Ekiti.
The result was announced at
the National Collation Centre, Abuja, by Prof. Idowu Olayinka, Vice-Chancellor,
University of Ibadan, who is the Collation Officer for the election in the
state.
Olayinka said Buhari polled
219, 231 votes to beat Atiku, who scored 154,032 votes.
Buhari defeats Atiku in
Ogun
Also in Ogun State, Prof.
Joseph Adeola-Fuwape, the state Collation Officer for the Presidential
election, declared Buhari as the winner of the poll.
Adeola-Fuwape, who
announced the result at the INEC headquarters in Abeokuta on Monday, said
Buhari scored 281,762 votes, while his closest rival scored 194,655 votes.
Buhari wins in Sokoto
INEC has also declared
Buhari as the winner of the presidential election in Sokoto State with a margin
of 138,729 votes.
Announcing the results at
the Sultan Muhammadu Maccido Institute for Qur’an and General Studies, Prof.
Mohammed Yahuza, the state returning officer for the presidential election,
stated that Buhari polled 490,333 votes ahead of Atiku who scored 351,604.
Buhari triumphs over Atiku
in Gombe
Buhari also won the
election in Gombe State after polling 403,961 votes out of 580,649 total votes
cast in the state.
The result was announced on
Monday at INEC National Collation Centre in Abuja, by the State Returning
Officer, Prof. Kyari Mohammed.
Mohammed, who is also the
Vice-Chancellor of Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, said Atiku
scored 138,484 votes in the state.
Atiku sweeps Ebonyi
INEC has declared Atiku
winner in the presidential poll held in Ebonyi State on Saturday.
The Presidential Election
Collation Officer in the state, Prof. Chukwuemeka Eze, said Atiku garnered 258,
575 votes as against Buhari’s 90, 726 votes.
INEC declares Buhari as
winner in Kogi
However, INEC announced
Buhari as the winner of the election in Kogi State. The result was announced at
the National Collation Centre (ICC) Abuja, by Prof. Michael Adikwu, the
Vice-Chancellor, University of Abuja, who is the Collation Officer for the
election in the state.
Adikwu announced that
Buhari polled 285,894 votes to defeat the PDP candidate, Atiku, who scored
218,207 votes.
Buhari defeats Atiku in
Bauchi
President Buhari of the APC
has won the presidential election in Bauchi State. According to results
announced by the Local Government Collation Officers in Bauchi on Monday,
Buhari polled 798,438 to defeat Atiku.
The State Collation Officer
who is the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University, Kashere, Gombe State,
Prof. Alhassan Ghali, said Atiku got 209,313 votes in the election.
Buhari floors Atiku in
Lagos
Buhari has also polled
580,825 votes to defeat his closest rival, Atiku of the PDP in Lagos State.
According to Prof. Felix
Salako, the Vice-Chancellor, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State,
who was the INEC state collation officer, Atiku scored 448,015 to come second.
Atiku wins Plateau with
548,665 votes
Meanwhile, Atiku has won
Saturday’s presidential election in Plateau State after scoring 548,665 votes.
Atiku defeated his closest opponent, Buhari, of the APC, who scored 468, 555
votes.
Atiku thrashes Buhari in
Enugu
However, Atiku was
announced as the winner of Saturday’s presidential election in Enugu State.
The result was announced at
the National Collation Centre, Abuja, by Prof. Joseph Ehaneku, the
Vice-Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, who is the Collation
Officer for the election in the state.
Ehaneku announced that
Atiku polled 355,553 votes to defeat Buhari, who scored 54,423 votes.
Buhari records landslide
victory in Yobe
But Buhari was declared
winner of the election in Yobe State.
Prof. Abubakar Musa, the
State Returning Officer and Vice-Chancellor, Federal University Wukari , Taraba
State, announcing the result, said Buhari scored 497,914 votes in the state.
Musa said that Atiku scored
50,763 votes from the 559.365 valid votes cast in the state.
INEC declares Buhari winner
in Jigawa
Buhari has also been
declared winner in Jigawa State. Prof. Abdullahi Zuru, Vice-Chancellor of Usman
Danfodio University Sokoto, who is the State Collation Officer for the
election, announced the result in Dutse on Monday.
He said that Buhari, who
sought for re -election on the platform of the APC scored 794,738 to defeat his
closest rival, Atiku who got 289,895 votes.
INEC declares Buhari winner
in Kaduna
Buhari has won in Kaduna
State with 993,482 votes. Prof. Bello Shehu, the Returning Officer announced
the result on Monday in Kaduna.
Shehu said Atiku scored
613,318 votes in the poll.
INEC announces Atiku winner
in Abia
Meanwhile, INEC has
announced Atiku as winner of the election Abia State. The result was announced
at the National Collation Centre (ICC) Abuja, by Prof. Chinedum Nwajiuba,
announced that Atiku polled 219,698 votes to defeat Buhari, who scored 85,048
votes.
PDP rejects results,
party’s legal team meets today
However, the PDP on Monday
alleged that the results being announced by the INEC had been altered. It
therefore said the results were unacceptable to the party.
The party said it was
forced to take a stand and make the pronouncements at this crucial point
because “our democracy is under threat of derailment.”
The National Chairman of
the party, Prince Uche Secondus, made the position of the party known at a
press conference in Abuja.
He alleged that the results
being announced at the commission’s National Collation Centre in Abuja were
different from the original results at the disposal of the party’s agents in
polling units, wards and local government areas across the country.
He said both the officials
of the commission and the agents of President Buhari’s government and that of
the APC had allegedly tried to alter the course of history by disenfranchising
voters through alleged cancellation and manipulation of figures for results
already announced at polling units nationwide.
Secondus alleged that
157,591 votes from 86 polling units were cancelled in Nasarawa State alone.
He also alleged that 10,000
illegal votes were given to the APC in Wurno LGA in Sokoto State.
Despite provocation,
intimidation and alleged attempts to “hijack our democracy and change the
course of history,” Secondus said he was sure that the PDP was on course at
winning the presidential election.
Meanwhile, the legal team
of the PDP has summoned an emergency meeting for Tuesday.
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