Official results: Buhari wins Nigeria Polls

One of the leading newspapers in Nigeria has reported that the presidential candidate of the opposition All Progressive Congress (APC) Muhammadu Buhari has won Saturday’s presidential elections. The announcement was made on the paper’s website on Tuesday, March 31, 2015. 

According to the paper “with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announcing collated results for the presidential election from
the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, and having analysed the state and local government areas’ results in the possession of THISDAY reporters from around the country, The Board of Editors of THISDAY calls this presidential elections in favour of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Major-General Muhammadu Buhari.”

 It also added that “THISDAY Newspapers can comfortably project that Buhari has won the 2015 presidential election.” Per the papers calculation, both Buhari and President Goodluck Jonathan have satisfied the constitutionally required 1/3 in 24 states, but General Buhari’s current lead in valid vote cast is unassailable. The announcement led to a confrontation between an agent of the People’s Democractic Party (PDP) and the Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Attahiru Jega at the beginning ot the collation of results on Monday.

The Minister Godsday Orubebe accused Jega of being partial which he denied. The collation is still underway at the INEC offices.

Nigeria’s main opposition leader from the All Progressive Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari has taken a commanding lead in the country’s polls, certified results from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has shown. INEC has so far certified results of 35 and one federal state out of the 36 states.

 Official Results for Presidential Poll –

NO.	State	APC	PDP
1.	Ogun	308,290	207,950
2.	Osun	383,603	249,929
3.	Ekiti	120,331	176,466
4.	Ondo	299,889	251,368
5.	Enugu	14,157	553,003
6.	Kogi	264,851	149,987
7.	Oyo	528,620	303,376
8.	FCT	146,399	157,195
9.	Nasawara	236,838	273,460
10.	Kano	1,903,999	215,779
11.	Jigawa	885,988	142,904
12.	Katsina	1,345,441	98,937
13.	Kwara	302,146	132,602
14.	Kaduna	1,127,760	484,085
15.	Anambra	17,926	660,762
16.	Abia	13,394	368,303
17.	Akwa Ibom	58,411	953,304
18.	Imo	133,253	559,185
19.	Plateau	429,140	549,615
20.	Ebonyi	19,518	323,653
21.	Niger	657,678	149,222
22.	Lagos	792,460	632,327
23.	Bayelsa	5,194	361,209
24.	Gombe	361,245	96,873
25.	Cross River	28,368	414,863
26.	Rivers	69,238	1,487,075
27.	Adamawa	374,701	251,664
28.	Zamfara	612,202	144, 833
29.	Kebbi	567,883	100,972
30.	Benue	373,961	303,737
31.	Bauchi	931,598	86,085
32.	Yobe	446,265	25,526
33.	Edo	208,469	286,869
34.	Taraba	261,326	310,800
35.	Sokoto	671,926	152,199
36.	Delta	48,910	1,211,405
37.	Borno	473,543	25,640
TOTAL		15,424,921	12,708,329