The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared President Muhammadu Buhari, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of Nigeria’s 2019 presidential election which held on Saturday, 23rd February 2019.
In announcing the results early Wednesday, the Chief Returning officer for the elections and Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu announced that the APC candidate polled a total of 15, 191,847 votes to defeat his closest rival, Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 11,262,978 and Donald Duke of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) who came third with a vote tally of 34,746.
That Muhammadu Buhari of the APC, having satisfied the requirement of the law and scored the highest number of votes is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected. #NigeriaDecides2019Result pic.twitter.com/oz89PAz1QM
— INEC Nigeria (@inecnigeria) February 27, 2019
See video below:
Final Collation and Declaration of Results by the Chief Returning Officer of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
https://t.co/QtIrN1mvx5
— INEC Nigeria (@inecnigeria) February 27, 2019
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