The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared
President Muhammadu Buhari winner of Saturday’s presidential election.
INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, while announcing the
results early on Wednesday in Abuja said Buhari of the All Progressives
Congress polled 15,191,847 votes to defeat his main challenger, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar
of the People’s Democratic Party who scored 11,255,978 votes.
Also in the results announced, the Allied Congress Party of
Nigeria polled a total of 7, 223 votes.
The presidential candidate of the party and a former
Minister of Education, Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili, had earlier announced her
withdrawal from the presidential race, citing lack of support for her vision by
the party leadership.
The party leadership headed by Alhaji Abdul-Ganiyu Galadima
immediately refuted Ezekwesili’s claims, saying that the former minister was
rather pursuing a personal agenda and was never serious about her ambition.
INEC had also said Ezewkwesili’s withdrawal had come too
late and that it was not possible for the commission to substitute her name on
the presidential list.
In spite of that, Ezekwesili did not reverse her decision as
she suspended all her campaign activities.
A total of 73 candidates contested the 2019 presidential
election which held on Saturday, February 23, 2019.
(NAN)
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