President Muhammadu Buhari
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) this morning declared President Muhammadu Buhari winner of Saturday’s presidential elections.
The Returning Officer for the 2019 presidential elections, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made the declaration at 4.37am, Wednesday, 27th February, 2019.
Incumbent President Buhari of the All Progressives Party (APC) polled 15,191,847 votes to defeat the country’s former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who had 11,262,978 votes.
Making the declaration, Yakubu said: “That Muhammadu Buhari, having scored the highest number of votes and satisfied the provision of the electoral act is hereby declared the winner of the presidential election.’’
He announced that certificate of return will be issued to the President-elect and Vice President-elect by 2 pm later today.
According to the constitution, a presidential candidate must have nothing less than 25 per cent of votes cast in at least two-thirds or 24 states of the federation. The candidate should also have majority votes in the election.
With the figure released by INEC at the national collation centre in Abuja on Wednesday morning, the incumbent President has more than 25 per cent of the election in over 24 states.
He also defeated his closest rival with 3,928,869 votes.
Atiku also had 25 per cent of the total votes cast in over 24 states but lost the poll when the simple majority rule condition is applied.
While President Buhari won in 19 states, Atiku won in 17 states and the FCT.
The parties and their number of votes as follows:
A 19209
AA 14380
AAC 33,953
AAP 8902
ABP 4523
ACD 11,325
ACPN 7223
ABC 97874
ABP 54930
AGA 4689
AGAP 3071
ANDP 3104
ANN 16779
ANP 3586
ANRP 4340
APA 36866
APC 15,191,847
APDA 26558
APGA 66851
APM 26039
APP 3585
ASD 2146
AUN 1092
BNPP 1649
CAP 1111
CC 2,391
CNP 1,874
DA 2,769
DPC 5,242
DPP 14,483
FRESH 4,554
FJP 4,174
GDPN 41,852
GPN 4,924
HDP 1,663
ID 1,845
JMPP 1,853
JP 1,911
LM 1,438
LP 5,074
MAJA 2,651
MMN 1,4540
MPN 2,752
NAC 2,279
NCMP 1,378
NCP 3,799
NDCP 1,192
NDLP 1,588
NEPP 1,524
NFD 4,096
NIP 2,248
NNPP 6,111
NPC 10,081
NRM 6,229
NUP 5,323
PCP 110,196
PDP 11,262,978
PPA 21,822
PPC 8,979
PPN 4,622
PT 2,613
RAP 2,972
RBNP 1,792
RP 2,388
SDP 34,746
SNC 28,680
SNP 3,941
UDP 3,170
UP 1,561
UPN 1,631
WTPN 732
YES 2,394
YPP 21,886
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