The candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Saturday’s presidential election, Muhammadu Buhari, has defeated the flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, in the result released for Borno State by the Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday.
While Buhari scored 836,496 votes, Abubakar got a paltry 71,788 votes.
This is the third of the results to be released by INEC from the outstanding nine after the Commission resumed from its break of announcing the results.
The results from 27 States and Abuja has earlier been announced.