Following the February 23 Presidential election in Nigeria, Professor Yakubu of Independent National Electoral Commission has announced President Muhammadu Buhari as president-elect, after final collation of results in Abuja. President Buhari polled 15,191,847 votes in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (winning in 19 of the states, after the result of Rivers was appended). His closest rival, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party scored 10,782, 007 votes, winning 17 states and Abuja. Buhari also satisfied the constitutional requirement of claiming 25 per cent in 34 states and the FCT except Enugu and Anambra states.
In 2015, M.Buhari scored 15,424,921 votes to beat the former president Goodluck Jonathan who scored 12,853,162 votes. Muhammadu Buhari is officially the second person to win a second term since the return of democracy to Nigeria in 1999.
He’s also the third person EVER to be re-elected president, after Shehu Shagari and Olusegun Obasanjo.
At a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, February 26, 2019, the Deputy Director General of the party’s presidential campaign organisation, Tanimu Turaki (SAN), called for an immediate halt of the collation of results until data from the smart card reader accreditation at the polling units are made available to all the parties involved in the election. He also stated that the party had evidence of the manipulation of the card readers to rig the election in favour of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
TOTAL VOTES BY PARTIES
A 19,209
AA 14,380
AAC 33,953
AAP 8,902
ABP 4,523
ACD 11,325
ACPN 7,223
ADC 97,874
ADP 54,930
AGA 4,689
AGAP 3,071
ANDP 3,104
ANN 16,779
ANP 3,586
ANRP 4,340
APA 36,866
APC 15,191,847
APDA 26,558
APGA 66,851
APM 26,039
APP 3,585
ASD 2,146
AUN 1092
BNPP 1,649
CAP 1,111
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 14,540
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
Total Number of Valid Votes 27, 324,583
Total Number of Rejected Votes 1, 289,607
Total Number of Votes Cast 28,614,190
Infographics by © Nigeria Election Centre, Stears Business.