How and why Buhari won

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By Clifford Ndujihe, Deputy Political Editor

ALTHOUGH he got fewer votes than he did in 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari secured enough votes at the February 23 presidential poll to be handed a re-election certificate. With 15, 191,847 votes, which is 3,928,969 votes higher than the 11,262,978 votes that his closest challenger, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP scored, President Buhari was returned as the winner of the election by the Independent National Electoral Electoral Commission, INEC , Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu.

In 2015, he got 15,424,921 votes and beat Dr Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP with 2.7 million votes.

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How he won

As the results of the poll were being collated, it became clear that Buhari was headed for victory. Reason: He retained his strong hold in North-West and most parts of the North-East, won the North-Central, the South-West and made appreciable in-roads in the South-East and South-South, which are the strong holds of…



Source: Vanguard Newspaper