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INEC Declares Buhari Winner Of 2019 Presidential Election (Full Results)

by Damilare Salami
Buhari, Supreme Court, Hope Democratic Party,

INEC Declares Buhari Winner Of 2019 Presidential Election
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared President Muhammadu Buhari, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the 2019 presidential election, held on Saturday Feb. 23.

The Returning Officer for the 2019 presidential elections, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made the declaration at 4.37am.

He polled 15,191,847 votes to defeat his closest rival, former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the presidential poll conducted on February 23 who had 11,262,978 votes.

The INEC chairmain said: โ€œThat Muhammadu Buhari, having scored the highest number of votes and satisfied the provision of the electoral act is hereby declared the winner of the presidential election.โ€™โ€™
He announced that certificate of return will be issued to the President-elect and Vice President-elect by 2 pm on Wednesday.

THE FINAL SCORES

STATES APC PDP

Abia 85,058 219,698

Adamawa 378,078 410,266

Akwa Ibom 175,429 395,832

Anambra 33,298 524,738

Bauchi 798,428 209,313

Bayelsa 118,821 197,933

Benue 347,668 356,817

Borno 836,496 71,788

Cross River 117,302 295,737

Delta 221,292 594,068

Ebonyi 90,726 258,573

Edo 267,842 275,691

Ekiti 219,231 154,032

Enugu 54,423 355,553

Gombe 402,961 138,484

Imo 140,463 334,923

Jigawa 794,738 289,895

Kaduna 993,445 649,612

Kano 1,464,768 391,593

Katsina 1,232,133 308,056

Kebbi 581,552 154,282

Kogi 285,894 218,207

Kwara 308,984 138,184

Lagos 580,825 448,015

Nasarawa 289,903 283,847

Niger 612,371 218,052

Ogun 281,762 194,655

Ondo 241,769 275,901

Osun 347,634 337,377

Oyo 365,229 366,690

Plateau 468,555 548,665

Rivers 150,710 473,971

Sokoto 490,333 361,604

Taraba 324,906 374,743

Yobe 497,914 50,763

Zamfara 438,682 125,423

FCT 152,224 259,997

TOTAL: 15,191,847 11,262,978

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