President Muhammadu Buhari has been declared the winner of the 2019 presidential election held on February 23, 2019.
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, declared Buhari as the validly elected president of Nigeria arising from the election.
Buhari, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress polled a total of 15,191,847 votes to retain the seat he first won in 2015.
Closest to him was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who scored, 11,262,978 votes.
This means Buhari thrashed Abubakar with a total of 3,928,869 votes.
A total of 29,364,209 Nigerians were accredited for the election.
A total of 28,614,190 votes were cast, while 27,324,583 of the votes were valid.
The rest, 1,289,607, were invalid.
The full results:
A: 19,209
AA: 14,380
AAC: 33,953
AAP: 8,902
ABP: 4,523
ACD: 11,325
ACPN: 7,223
ADC: 97874
ADP: 54,930
AGA: 4,689
AGAP: 3,071
ANDP: 3,104
ANN: 16,779
ANP: 3,586
ANRP: 4,340
APA: 36,866
APC: 15,191,847
APPA: 26,558
APGA: 66,851
APM: 26,039
APP: 3,585
ASD: 2,146
AUN: 1,092
BNPP: 1,649
CAP: 1,111
CC: 2,391
CNP: 1,874
DA: 2,769
DPC: 5,242
DPP: 14,483
FRESH: 4,554
FJP: 4,174
GDPN: 41,852
GPN: 4,924
HDP: 1,663
ID: 1,845
JMPP: 1,853
KP: 1,911
LM: 1,438
LP: 5,074
MAJA: 2,651
MMN: 14,540
MPN: 2,752
NAC: 2,279
NCMP: 1,378
NCP: 3,799
NDCP: 1,192
NDLP: 1,588
NEPP: 1,524
NFD: 4,096
NIP: 2,248
NNPP: 6,111
NPC: 10,081
NRM: 6,229
NUP: 5,323
PCP: 110,196
PDP: 11,262,978
PPA: 21,822
PPC: 8,979
PPN: 4,622
PT: 2,613
RAP: 2,972
RBNP: 1,792
RP: 2,388
SDP: 34,746
SNC: 28,680
SNP: 3,941
UDP: 3,170
UP: 1,561
UPN: 1,631
UBTN: 732
YPS: 2,394
YPP: 21,886.
Yakubu thus declared Buhari as validly elected.
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