Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was on Saturday announced as winner of the election at Aso Rock polling units.
This was after a recount of votes by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). In the result initially announced, President Muhammadu Buhari lost to Atiku Abubakar, his main rival, by 17 votes.
While Atiku got 1,030 votes, Buhari trailed with 1,013 votes.
The officials were still collating results of the elections from voting when some party agents argued that the figures they had did not tally with the ones with the electoral officials.
Ballots that had been kept away at two voting points were recounted as the INEC personnel started the collation all over.
Buhari and Atiku split the two units at the presidential villa. While the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate garnered 525 votes at unit 022, Buhari who ran under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), trailed with 465.
At the end of the recount, the margin between Buhari and Atiku dropped from 17 to 13.
Earlier in the day, President Muhammadu Buhari was declared the winner of the polling unit where Atiku Abubakar registered and voted in Yola, Adamawa State.
The mixed fortune of results in the election also played out in Lagos where Atiku won the polling unit of Sanwo Olu, the governorship candidate of the ruling APC while the PDP governorship candidate, Segun Agbaje lost his polling unit to President Buhari of the APC.
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