The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has finally announced the results for the last Saturday’s Presidential election.
According to the commission, the All Progressive Congress (APC) polled a total of 15,424,921 to defeat the ruling party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who only got 12, 853,162 votes.
Other parties and their results are as follows:
Announcing the results, Chairman of the commission, Prof Attahiru Jega noted that there were a total of 31,746,490 accredited voters.
According to him, the total number of votes cast on the Election day stood at 29,432,083, out of which 844,519 votes were rejected and another 28,587,564 voted considered valid.
AA = 22,125,
ACPN = 40,311
AD = 30,673
ADC = 29,666
APA = 53,537
CPP = 36,300
HOPE = 7,435
KOWA = 13,076
NCP = 24,455
PPM = 24,475
UDP = 9,208
UPP = 18,220