Nigeria 2015 Polls: Muhammadu Buhari Wins Nigeria’s Presidential Election, thanks all

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari, winner of Nigeria’s presidential election, defeating the incumbent, President Goodluck Jonathan.

The announcement was made by the Chairman of INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, after the completion of the collation and announcement of results from across Nigeria, which started at the collation centre in Abuja, the nation’s capital, on Monday and ended on Tuesday, March 31.

After the announcement of votes received by all 14 candidates, the INEC Chairman received the results from the 36 states plus the FCT and proceeded with computation and tallying, a process which ran into the early hours of Wednesday, April 1.

General Muhammadu Buhari of the APC polled a total of 15,424,921 votes to defeat all other candidates, with Dr Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP polling a total of 12,853,162 votes to place second.

Professor Jega went on to declare the APC presidential candidate as the winner of the presidential election having satisfied the requirements of the law and scoring the highest numbers of votes. He said the two candidates fulfilled the requirement of the law regarding satisfying a national spread of votes scored. Buhari scored at least 25 per cent in 27 states and FCT while incumbent President Jonathan recorded at least 25 per cent of votes scored in 26 states of the federation.

Buhari thanked Nigerians for choosing him and his party over and above the PDP and their candidate, the incumbent President, Dr Jonathan Goodluck.

...ChannelsTV