At exactly 4.39am today, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, declared incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the 2019 presidential election held last Saturday.
Yakubu said that Buhari polled 15,191,847 votes, the majority votes to clinch the country’s foremost office as against his arch-rival, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP’s)11,262,978 votes.
He said that “having secured the highest number of votes cast in the election, Muhammadu Buhari is hereby returned elected as president.”
In 2015, Buhari won the presidential election with 15,416,921 votes to beat the then incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan, who scored 12,853,162 votes.
Buhari’s 2019 vote is 325,074 lower than the figures of 2015.
In the current election, the president defeated Atiku by a margin of 3,928,869 votes to secure another ticket to govern…
