The opposition leader Muhammadu Buhari earned a massive victory in the key northern state of Kano, beating his rival, President Goodluck Jonathan, by nearly 1.7 million votes, official presidential election results released Monday said.
Buhari’s victory in Kano in the polls held Saturday and Sunday had been expected, with the margin of victory seen as crucial to his chances nationally.
The 72-year-old former army general is from neighbouring Katsina state and like most in Kano is a Muslim from the Hausa-Fulani ethnic group.
Buhari won 1,903,999 votes in Kano, which is Nigeria‘s second most populous state after Lagos, the southern economic capital.
Jonathan, who hopes to contain his losses in the north, won 215,799 votes.
Buhari beat Jonathan in Kano by roughly a million votes in 2011.
Kano is among the Nigerian states hit hardest by Boko Haram Islamists, where many have criticised Jonathan’s handling of the insurgency.
Aside from tribal and religiously allegiances, Buhari’s effort to play up is national security credentials may have helped boost his margin of victory among Kano’s frequently-attacked population.
The president and his Peoples Democratic Party are expected to run-up huge majorities in the southeast, perhaps offsetting Buhari’s wins in the north.
Results were expected to trickle in overnight on Monday after a closely fought campaign.
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ReplyDeleteThe new kind of rigging is called disenfranchisement.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if anyone noticed how the total number of accredited voters in states where pdp won or is likely to win is a far cry from the total number of registered voters, this is mostly peculiar to southern states.
The sinister plan is orchestrated not just at the polling units but from inside INEC.
How can states like Kaduna with about 3.3 million registered end up with only about 1.6million, and no cancellations in Kaduna North where APC is likely to have lost; while in Kaduna South, LGAS like ZangonKataf and Sanga which even a child knows would have voted massively for PDP ended with unexplained cancellations.
Whereas, Northern States like Kano maintain almost the same size of registered voters as accredited voters.
Of they can't win or outright they will disenfranchise the voters and render their numbers useless.
In Kaduna for example, in the day of elections accreditation commenced very early in the Northern parts while in Kaduna south accreditation did not commence till very late in the day an in some places after voters waited for hours Inc officials never came.
Also in the northern States child voters are common, this is not a secret, the pictures on social media are only a small glimpse of what has always been going on.
Remember at the time of Feb 14 the states with the highest collection of PVCs were northern states while the states in the south had a very low rate, and some did not even have any PVCS distributed by INEC.
Also large Christian communities in the North have been severely depleted in numbers due to insurgency activities.
Now tell me who stands to gain from all this?
Am no advocate of PDP or Jonathan, he may just arguably be the worst president Nigeria has ever had, but you cannot deny that his capacity and will to govern and lead the country has been greatly impeded by the activities of saboteurs. Now the results of the sabotage are glaring for all to see.
If someone out of power is capable of making a country 'ungovernable', imagine what they can accomplish when in power?
Both sides have rigged, but what is happening as per the disenfranchisement of Nigerians to tip the scale in favor of the North is on another level of Sinister.
Shine ya eye!