The Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday started the announcement of the results of Saturday’s presidential election.
As of the time of filing this report, INEC had announced the result in 10 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
The states are Ondo, Ekiti, Gombe, Kwara, Kogi, Yobe, Abia, Osun, Nasarawa, Ebonyi, Enugu, and the Federal Capital Territory.
The results were announced by the returning officers of the states at the National Collation Centre in Abuja.
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, President Muhammadu Buhari, won in Ekiti, Nasarawa, Yobe, Kwara, Kogi, and Gombe, while his closest rival, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, won in Ondo, Abia, Ebonyi, and the FCT.
However, some results declared by collation officers in states which have not been taken to the national collation center in Abuja reveal that Buhari is in strong lead. The states where Buhari is leading in this category include Bauchi, Lagos, Ogun and Sokoto, Jigawa, Kaduna while Atiku has won in Adamawa and Plateau states.
Buhari wins in Kwara with 308,984 votes
In Kwara State, Buhari won the election having scored 308,984 votes, as announced by INEC.
The result was announced on Monday at the National Collation Centre, Abuja, by Prof. Abdullahi Bala, of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State, who is the Collation Officer for the election in Kwara.
Bala, while announcing the result, said Atiku scored 138,984 votes.
He said Prof. Kingsley Moghalu of the Young Progressives Party secured 140 votes; Ositelu Babatunde of Accord (A) got 149 votes; while Ibrahim Hassan of the African Peoples Alliance scored 1,010 votes.
Bala gave the number of total registered voters in the state as 1,401,895; total accredited voters 489,482; Total valid votes 459,676, total votes cast at 486,254 and rejected votes to be 26,578.
Atiku floors Buhari in Adamawa
However, Atiku was declared the winner of the election in his home state of Adamawa.
Declaring the result on Monday in Yola, the Presidential Election Returning Officer for Adamawa, Prof. Andrew Yakubu, said Abubakar scored 410,266 votes to defeat the APC candidate who scored 378,078 votes.
Yakubu said the total number of registered voters in the state was 1,959,322, while 874,920 voters were accredited
The Presidential election results are from the 21 local government areas of Adamawa.
The PDP won in 11 LGAs, while the APC had 10.
INEC announces Buhari winner in Ekiti
INEC, however, announced Buhari of the APC as the winner of Saturday’s election in Ekiti.
The result was announced at the National Collation Centre, Abuja, by Prof. Idowu Olayinka, Vice-Chancellor, University of Ibadan, who is the Collation Officer for the election in the state.
Olayinka said Buhari polled 219, 231 votes to beat Atiku, who scored 154,032 votes. Felix Nicholas of Peoples Coalition Party was third with 2,299 votes.
According to him, Moghalu of YPP scored 68 votes, Mr. Da-Sliva Ayo of Save Nigeria Congress polled 339 votes, and Omoyele Sowere of the African Action Congress got 400 votes.
Other scores, Olayinka said, were 406 votes for the African Democratic Congress and 88 votes for Durotoye Olufela of Alliance for New Nigeria.
He said that total registered voters in Ekiti was 899,919, but that 395,741 were accredited, while total votes cast in the poll was 393,709, with 12, 577 rejected.
Olayinka noted that the number of political parties on the ballot paper was responsible for the high number of voided votes in the election.
Buhari defeats Atiku in Ogun
Also in Ogun State, Prof. Joseph Adeola-Fuwape, the state Collation Officer for the Presidential election, declared Buhari as the winner of the poll.
Adeola-Fuwape, who announced the result at the INEC headquarters in Abeokuta on Monday, said Buhari scored 281,762 votes, while his closest rival scored 194,655 votes.
Adeola-Fuwape, who is the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, said the total number of registered voters was 2,336, 887 while the total number of accredited voters was 613,397.
Adeola-Fuwape added that the number of valid votes was 564, 256 while 41,682 votes were rejected.
He also said the total number of votes cast was 605, 938.
He said Buhari won in 14 of the 20 council areas in the state while Atiku won in six council areas.
Buhari wins in Sokoto
INEC has also declared Buhari as the winner of the presidential election in Sokoto State with a margin of 138,729 votes.
Announcing the results at the Sultan Muhammadu Maccido Institute for Qur’an and General Studies, Prof. Mohammed Yahuza, the state returning officer for the presidential election, stated that Buhari polled 490,333 votes ahead of Atiku who scored 351,604.
Significantly, Buhari recorded massive win at Wamakko, Sokoto South, Wurno, Sokoto North, Gwadabawa and Tambuwal Local Government Areas of the state.
The PDP, however, put up a good showing in Silame, Isa, Tureta and Gudu Local Government Areas, out of the entire 23 LGAs in the state.
Out of the total 1,895,256 registered voters in the state, 950,107 were accredited for the election.
Out of this number, 925,940 voted; 871,891 were valid votes cast, and 54,049 recorded as voided votes.
Buhari triumphs over Atiku in Gombe
Buhari also won the election in Gombe State after polling 403,961 votes out of 580,649 total votes cast in the state.
The result was announced on Monday at INEC National Collation Centre in Abuja, by the State Returning Officer, Prof. Kyari Mohammed.
Mohammed, who is also the Vice-Chancellor of Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, said Atiku scored 138,484 votes in the state.
He said that out of the 1,385,191 total registered voters in the state, 604,240 were accredited. The number of valid votes was 554,203, while 26,446 were rejected.
Mohammed said the election was canceled in 13 polling units in two Local Government Areas with 7,090 registered voters in the affected areas.
The canceled polling units include 11 in Balanga LGA with 6,308 voters and two polling units with 782 registered voters in Duku LGA.
Atiku sweeps Ebonyi
INEC has declared Atiku winner in the presidential poll held in Ebonyi State on Saturday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the APC in the state had, however, rejected the result and vowed to challenge it through appropriate channels.
The Presidential Election Collation Officer in the state, Prof. Chukwuemeka Eze, supervised the declaration of the results by INEC’s collation officers in the 13 local government areas in the state at the commission’s headquarters in Abakaliki.
Eze said Atiku garnered 258, 575 votes as against Buhari’s 90, 726 votes.
According to the results declared, Atiku won in 12 LGAs leaving Buhari with victory in Ikwo council.
Reacting to the result, Chairman of the APC in the state, Mr. Eze Nwachukwu, called for the cancellation of the election citing intimidation, electoral violence, and over-voting, allegedly committed by the ruling party in the state as reasons.
INEC declares Buhari winner in Kogi
However, INEC announced Buhari as the winner of the election in Kogi State.
The result was announced at the National Collation Centre (ICC) Abuja, by Prof. Michael Adikwu, the Vice-Chancellor, University of Abuja, who is the Collation Officer for the election in the state.
Adikwu announced that Buhari polled 285,894 votes to defeat the PDP candidate, Atiku, who scored 218,207 votes.
Dr. Obadiah Mailafia of the African Democratic Congress came third with 4,369 votes.
He said the number of registered voters in Kogi was 1,640,449 but that 570,773 were accredited, while votes cast were 553,496 with 32,480 rejected.
Adikwu noted that there were cases of violence in 15 out of 21 Local Government Areas in the state, which led to the cancellation of 89, 101 votes.
Buhari defeats Atiku in Bauchi
President Buhari of the APC has won the presidential election in Bauchi State.
According to results announced by the Local Government Collation Officers in Bauchi on Monday, Buhari polled 798,438 to defeat Atiku.
The State Collation Officer who is the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University, Kashere, Gombe State, Prof. Alhassan Ghali, said Atiku got 209,313 votes in the election.
The APC candidate won in 19 of the 20 local governments in the state while the PDP won in only Bogoro LGA.
The last result from Katagum LGA arrived at the collation center at about 9.20 pm after a long wait.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner, Ibrahim Abdullahi, thanked party agents and observers for their patience.
However, the result will be officially declared in Abuja later today (Tuesday).
Buhari floors Atiku in Lagos
Buhari has also polled 580,825 votes to defeat his closest rival, Atiku of the PDP in Lagos State.
According to Prof. Felix Salako, the Vice-Chancellor, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, who was the INEC state collation officer, Atiku scored 448,015 to come second at the end of the state final collation of the Presidential election results from the 20 LGAs of the state.
Salako, who collated the results of the 20 LGAs, said the state had 6,313,507 registered voters out of which 1, 196, 490 were accredited for voting.
The LGA collation officers properly presented the results one after the other as they arrived at the collation center before they were accepted by Salako.
According to him, the valid votes are 1,089,567, total rejected votes (67,023) while votes cast stand at 1,157, 590 in the presidential election.
Reeling out the results of each political parties, he said Accord polled 5, 948 votes, AAC, 8, 910; ADC, 2915; ADP, 1,262; and ANN polled 6,946.
The professor added that APA had 1,495 votes, DPP polled 1,372 votes, PCP got 8,458, and SNC scored 1766.
The other political parties that participated in the poll had less than 1000 votes each.
According to him, Form 6OE will be pasted at the collation center after duly signed by the party agents.
Party agents took turns to sign the collated results for onward transmission to Abuja for the final collation.
Atiku wins Plateau with 548, 665 votes
Meanwhile, Atiku has won Saturday’s presidential election in Plateau State after scoring 548,665 votes.
Atiku defeated his closest opponent, Buhari, of the APC, who scored 468, 555 votes.
Prof. Richard Kimbir, the Collation Officer for the election in the state, declared the results on Monday in Jos.
Kambir, who is the Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, said Atiku won in 11 local government areas to defeat Buhari who won in six LGAs.
Atiku thrashes Buhari in Enugu
However, Atiku was announced as the winner of Saturday’s presidential election in Enugu State.
The result was announced at the National Collation Centre, Abuja, by Prof. Joseph Ehaneku, the Vice-Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, who is the Collation Officer for the election in the state.
Ehaneku announced that Atiku polled 355,553 votes to defeat Buhari, who scored 54,423 votes.
He said that total registered voters in Abia were 1,935,168 but that 452,765 were accredited, while total votes cast in the polls were 451,014 with 30,049 rejected.
Buhari records landslide victory in Yobe
But Buhari was declared the winner of the election in Yobe State.
Prof. Abubakar Musa, the State Returning Officer, and Vice-Chancellor, Federal University Wukari, Taraba State, announcing the result, said Buhari scored 497,914 votes in the state.
Musa said that Atiku scored 50,763 votes from the 559.365 valid votes cast in the state.
He said that the state had 1,365,913 registered voters, 601,059 accredited voters for the election, 586,137 total votes cast and 26,772 rejected votes.
INEC declares Buhari winner in Jigawa
Buhari has also been declared the winner in Jigawa State.
Prof. Abdullahi Zuru, Vice-Chancellor of Usman Danfodio University Sokoto, who is the State Collation Officer for the election, announced the result in Dutse on Monday.
He said that Buhari, who sought for re-election on the platform of the APC scored 794,738 to defeat his closest rival, Atiku who got 289,895 votes.
Zuru explained that a total of 1,106,244 votes were valid, 43,678 rejected and 1,149,922, the total number of votes cast during the exercise.
INEC declares Buhari winner in Kaduna
Buhari has won in Kaduna State with 993,482 votes.
Prof. Bello Shehu, the Returning Officer announced the result on Monday in Kaduna.
Shehu said Atiku scored 613,318 votes in the poll.
He said the APC won in 14 local government areas of the state, while the PDP won in nine local government areas.
INEC announces Atiku winner in Abia
Meanwhile, INEC has announced Atiku as the winner of the election Abia State.
The result was announced at the National Collation Centre (ICC) Abuja, by Prof. Chinedum Nwajiuba, the Vice-Chancellor, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo, Ebonyi, who was the Collation Officer for the election in the state.
Nwajiuba announced that Atiku polled 219,698 votes to defeat Buhari, who scored 85,048 votes.
Similarly, Mr. Donald Duke of the SDP was announced as coming third with 472 votes.
He said the number of registered voters in Abia was 1,793,861 but 361,561 were accredited, while votes cast in the polls were 344,471 with 21,180 rejected.
Nwajiuba noted that 98 polling units across seven Local Government Areas of the state were affected, while the number of registered voters affected was 59,825.
PDP rejects results, party’s legal team meets today
However, the PDP on Monday alleged that the results being announced by the INEC had been altered.
It, therefore, said the results were unacceptable to the party.
The party said it was forced to take a stand and make the pronouncements at this crucial point because “our democracy is under threat of derailment.”
The National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, made the position of the party known at a press conference in Abuja.
He alleged that the results being announced at the commission’s National Collation Centre in Abuja were different from the original results at the disposal of the party’s agents in polling units, wards and local government areas across the country.
He said both the officials of the commission and the agents of President Buhari’s government and that of the APC had allegedly tried to alter the course of history by disenfranchising voters through alleged cancellation and manipulation of figures for results already announced at polling units nationwide.
Secondus alleged that 157,591 votes from 86 polling units were canceled in Nasarawa State alone.
He also alleged that 10, 000 illegal votes were given to the APC in Wurno LGA in Sokoto State.
Despite provocation, intimidation and alleged attempts to “hijack our democracy and change the course of history,” Secondus said he was sure that the PDP was on course at winning the presidential election.
Meanwhile, the legal team of the PDP has summoned an emergency meeting for Tuesday.
Coming on the heels of the rejection of the presidential election result by the main opposition party, the meeting is expected to discuss the next line of action.
The notice of the meeting was sent by Kabir Turaki, former Minister of Special Duties, who unsuccessfully sought the presidential ticket of the PDP for the 2019 election.
The meeting, which will hold at the Legacy House, Abuja, is expected to start at 4 pm.
Turaki, a senior advocate, told invitees to “appear in person as there will be no representation please.”
“The legal works are about to begin,” a senior PDP official told TheCable.
Parties can seek redress after elections – INEC
Reacting to the PDP’s position, the Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmi, urged all political parties to allow the commission to conclude the process of announcing the results and declaring the winner as required by law.
He said, “Collation of the 2019 Presidential Election has yet to be concluded and is ongoing as I write this. In fact, only the results of Ekiti, Osun, Kwara, Nasarawa, Kogi, Gombe, Ondo, Abia states and the Federal Capital Territory have been presented at the National Collation Centre for the election.
“To be sure, only nine out of the 36 states have so far presented their results. Therefore, the overall winner has not yet been declared.
“We appeal to all political parties to allow the commission to conclude the process of announcing the results and declaring the winner of the election as required by law. Thereafter, any political party that does not agree with the outcome reserves the right to seek redress at the appropriate quarters.”
It is illogical for PDP to reject results – Keyamo
However, the Presidential Campaign Council of the APC has said it is illogical for the PDP to reject results of the presidential poll that are still being collated.
The council in a statement by its spokesperson, Festus Keyamo (SAN), expressed surprise at Secondus’ statement rejecting the results as being announced presently by INEC in Abuja.
The statement read, “How come the PDP is rejecting results that have not been fully and completely announced? How can one reject the result of an uncompleted game? The process of an election does not end until the final collation and announcement of results.
“Is the PDP rejecting the totality of the results nationwide? If yes, does it mean they also reject the results that would be announced later by INEC which may indicate that they have won in certain areas? Are they also rejecting the results already announced that indicate they won in some areas? For instance, are they rejecting the results of the FCT already announced in which they won?
“If indeed they are only rejecting areas where they lost, are they implying that it is only in areas where they won that can be adjudged free and fair and all areas where they lost must be adjudged rigged? Is that the mentality of true democrats?”
Keyamo said it was curious that the PDP rejected the results as being announced, yet claimed they were coasting to victory.
“What kind of logic is that? What kind of confusion is now reigning in the minds of the top hierarchy of the PDP that they can spew such illogicality?
“It is now obvious that the top hierarchy of the PDP is hysterical and nervous. We urge them to calm down. Obviously, this is the first time they are sensing a massive loss of an election as the opposition party. It is a new experience for them. They are confused and disoriented.
The council urged INEC, Nigerians and our international friends not to be swayed by the “infantile” antics of the PDP.
Don’t let PDP deceive you, APC tells media, observers
The Presidential Campaign Council of the APC also urged international media and observers not to be deceived by the alleged antics of the PDP.
The council said it became imperative to issue the statement because of the dangerous extent to which the main opposition party was taking the machinations to discredit and destabilize the just-concluded presidential poll.
Keyamo (SAN) in a statement on Monday said reports received in the Situation Room of the Election Planning and Monitoring Directorate of the APC indicated that INEC had done a good job despite the challenges and the delays experienced in some cases.
Restating that the PDP had been making efforts to disrupt the process, the council added, “However, we urge our international friends, observers, and patriotic Nigerians not to be deceived.”
The PCC expressed confidence that the results by INEC were free and fair.
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