Breaking: INEC Declares Muhammadu Buhari Winner Of The 2019 Presidential Elections
The final results of the 2019 presidential elections are in and the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Comission(INEC), Mahmood Yakubu has declared the incumbent president, Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) party as winner and returning president of Nigeria.
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President Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) polled a total of 15,191,847 (56%) votes, winning in 19 of the 36 states while his lead opponent, former vice-president Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) received 11,262,978 (41%) of votes and won 17 states and Abuja.
Buhari also satisfied the constitutional requirement of making 25 per cent in 34 states and the FCT. In 2015, Buhari scored 15, 424,921 votes to beat the PDP incumbent Goodluck Jonathan who scored 12,853,162 votes.
Atiku Abubakar’s People’s Democratic Party has however rejected the results and called for fresh elections in some parts of the country where they allege over-voting and other irregularities.
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Acoording to PDP,
“We demand the immediate and outright cancellation of presidential election results
in Yobe, Zamfara, Nasarawa and Borno states as submitted by INEC presiding officers
and ask for the conduct of fresh elections in these states,”
See the full results as released by INEC below…
| APC | PDP | AAC | YPP | ANN | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abia | 85,058 | 219,698 | 212 | 720 | 88 |
| Adamawa | 378,078 | 410,266 | 282 | 109 | 162 |
| Akwa Ibom | 175,429 | 395,832 | 222 | 118 | 95 |
| Anambra | 33,298 | 524,738 | 124 | 4,091 | 45 |
| Bauchi | 798,428 | 209,313 | 183 | 112 | 46 |
| Bayelsa | 118,821 | 197,933 | 126 | 50 | 37 |
| Benue | 347,668 | 356,817 | 309 | 557 | 201 |
| Borno | 836,496 | 71,788 | 269 | 78 | 29 |
| Cross River | 117,302 | 295,737 | 242 | 217 | 88 |
| Delta | 221,292 | 594,068 | 1,626 | 497 | 320 |
| Ebonyi | 90,726 | 258,573 | 205 | 192 | 683 |
| Edo | 267,842 | 275,691 | 3,106 | 531 | 273 |
| Ekiti | 219,231 | 154,032 | 400 | 68 | 88 |
| Enugu | 54,423 | 355,553 | 219 | 1,379 | 141 |
| FCT | 152,224 | 259,997 | 583 | 1,083 | 652 |
| Gombe | 402,961 | 138,484 | 165 | 39 | 78 |
| Imo | 140,463 | 334,923 | 467 | 676 | 119 |
| Jigawa | 794,738 | 289,895 | 226 | 67 | 66 |
| Kaduna | 993,445 | 649,612 | 243 | 196 | 261 |
| Kano | 1,464,768 | 391,593 | 416 | 200 | 114 |
| Katsina | 1,232,133 | 308,056 | 186 | 61 | 82 |
| Kebbi | 581,552 | 154,282 | 276 | 53 | 99 |
| Kogi | 285,894 | 218,207 | 250 | 87 | 89 |
| Kwara | 308,984 | 138,184 | 401 | 140 | 422 |
| Lagos | 580,825 | 448,015 | 8,910 | 5,733 | 6,946 |
| Nasarawa | 289,903 | 283,847 | 75 | 44 | 45 |
| Niger | 612,371 | 218,052 | 324 | 113 | 145 |
| Ogun | 281,762 | 194,655 | 3,196 | 553 | 1,509 |
| Ondo | 241,769 | 275,901 | 4,414 | 1,224 | 311 |
| Osun | 347,634 | 337,377 | 1,022 | 189 | 268 |
| Oyo | 365,229 | 366,690 | 4,014 | 1,608 | 1,896 |
| Plateau | 468,555 | 548,665 | 268 | 442 | 796 |
| Rivers | 150,710 | 473,971 | 372 | 415 | 365 |
| Sokoto | 490,333 | 361,604 | 181 | 84 | 124 |
| Taraba | 324,906 | 374,743 | 116 | 80 | 35 |
| Yobe | 497,914 | 50,763 | 137 | 36 | 37 |
| Zamfara | 438,682 | 125,423 | 186 | 44 | 24 |
| Total: | 15,191,847 | 11,262,978 | 33,953 | 21,886 | 16,779 |
See screenshot of INEC’s declaration from Twitter below:
Congratulations to the winner.