Muhammadu Buhari
Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of
the All Progressives Congress (APC) is cruising comfortably to victory
in last Saturday’s presidential elections, according to official results
released so far by collation centers of the Independent National
Electoral Commission across Nigeria.
Of more than 50 percent of the polling units reported, Mr. Buhari has received more than 64 percent of the votes and had won outright in at least twenty states. In addition, he has secured more than 25 percent of the votes in an additional five states.
Despite Mr. Buhari’s impressive showing, Femi Fani-Kayode, the spokesman of incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan’s reelection campaign,has just issued a statement today claiming that Mr. Jonathan was leading by up three million votes. Yesterday, Mr. Fani-Kayode had also claimed that President Jonathan had carried 23 of Nigeria’s 36 states, a claim that INEC chairman Attahiru Jega dismissed at a press conference as spurious.
“We wish to take this opportunity to make it clear to the Nigerian public that according to the figures made available to us, we are ahead in the presidential elections by at least two to three million votes.”
Mr. Fani-Kayode added: “We have our own Situation Room and we have collated all our figures from the various polling booths, wards, local government areas and states in the Federation.
“Despite the propaganda of the opposition, we are confident of victory. They and all other stakeholders can be rest assured that we will accept nothing less than the announcement of an election result that is truthful and that reflects the true will of the Nigerian people.”
Based on collated figures released by various INEC offices across Nigeria, Mr. Fani-Kayode’s statement is seen as reflecting a desperate effort to deny what observers view as the inevitable declaration of Mr. Buhari as winner of the presidential polls.
Going by the electoral law, the winner of the presidential polls is required to win the most popular votes in the country and at least 25 percent of the votes in at least 24 states.
Some of the key states already won by Mr. Buhari are Kano, Lagos, Borno, Sokoto, Adamawa and his home state of Katsina. The APC’s presidential candidate had also secured at least 25 percent of the votes in numerous states, including Imo State, in the southeast, and Plateau State.
A source at the European Union in Abuja told SaharaReporters that numerous member countries had appealed to President Jonathan to concede the election should it emerge that he lost it. International observers have expressed concerns about high percentage of votes allotted to President Jonathan in states like Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa and some Southeast states where Mr. Jonathan scored votes in excess of 95% across board.
STOP PRESS : Lagos state presidential election results just came as we uploaded the other states: See below
Total WardsNumber of Wards With Results PresidentialLGA Senatorial Zone APC PDP1
AGEGE Lagos West 11 11 53,640 23,978
2
AJEROMI/IFELODUN Lagos West 11 11 35,538 57,349
3
ALIMOSHO Lagos West 11 11 88,798 59,578
4
APAPA Lagos Central 10 10 19,352 12,356
5
BADAGRY Lagos West 11 11 24,418 22,533
6
IBEJU/LEKKI Lagos East 11 11 12,016 10,812
7
LAGOS ISLAND Lagos Central 19 19 33,445 12,715
8
SOMOLU Lagos East 12 12 46,758 33,173
9
IKORODU Lagos East 19 19 46,911 29,494
10
IFAKO-IJAYE Lagos West 11 10 46,785 21,165
11
LAGOS MAINLAND Lagos Central 11 10 29,911 20,195
12
IKEJA Lagos West 10 9 29,706 21,969
13
EPE Lagos East 19 17 14,792 12,421
14
SURULERE Lagos Central 12 12 51,773 57,460
15
AMUWO-ODOFIN Lagos West 11 8 17,820 23,179
16
OJO Lagos West 11 9 21,526 27,424
17
OSHODI/ISOLO Lagos West 11 8 24,608 32,732
18
MUSHIN Lagos West 14 12 48,910 28,963
19
ETI-OSA Lagos Central 10 6 19,793 12,412
20
KOSOFE Lagos East 10 6 20,424 13,827
Total 245 222 686,924 533,735
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