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
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