Atiku wins Abia, leads in Adamawa, Rivers…
President Muhammadu Buhari has maintained his lead in the presidential election held on Saturday as The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared him the winner of Saturday’s presidential election in Nasarawa State.
Azubuike Nwankwo, the Presidential Election Returning Officer for the state, read out the results polled by various political parties at the end of collation at about 11 a.m.
According to him, Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 289, 903 votes to defeat the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
Atiku Abubakar who scored 283,847 votes.
The result showed that Buhari won in eight out of the 13 local government areas of the state with Mr Abubakar winning in five.
Mr Nwankwo said 613,720 voters were accredited, while the total votes cast at presidential election in the state stood at 599,399.
He said the total number of valid votes was 580,778, while 18,621 votes were rejected.
Yobe State
The All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 497,914 votes to beat the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which scored 50,763 votes in Yobe in last Saturday’s presidential election.
Prof. Abubakar Gunduri, the state Collation officer, announced the result after collation from the 17 local government
areas in the state on Monday in Damaturu.
He said that the state had 1,365,913 registered voters, out of which, 601,059 were accredited for the election.
Mr Gunduri added that a total of 586,137 votes were cast, out of which, APC scored 497,914 votes, while PDP scored 50,763 votes.
According to the collation officer, the exercise recorded a total of 559,365 valid votes and 26,772 invalid votes.
He commended the electorate, stakeholders and party agents for the peaceful elections, commitment and cooperation
throughout the collation exercise.
Meanwhile, Dr Zaji Bunu and Dr Abdu Bulama, the agents of the APC and PDP, accepted the result and signed
the documents on behalf of their parties.
Buhari leads in Sokoto
President Muhammadu Buhari has won nine local government areas in Sokoto state while Atiku Abubakar got three in the ongoing collation of results for Saturday Presidential election.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that results of 12 local governments were declared at the presidential election collation centre which went for a break at about 4.30 a.m. on Monday.
The results collated by Chief Returning Officer of the state, Prof. Yahuza Bello, indicated that Buhari is leading with high votes, ahead of Mr Abubakar and the rest of the contenders.
Mr Bello is the Vice-Chancellor, Bayero University, Kano.
He said Mr Buhari polled 17, 684 against 14, 570 scored by Mr Abubakar in Kware, 15, 465 against 10, 176 in Yabo and 41, 347 against 24, 598 in Sokoto South Local Government Area.
The APC Presidential candidate scored 23, 242 votes in Gwadabawa while his PDP counterpart obtained 15, 656 and Mr Buhari polled 16, 466 as Mr Abubakar got 13, 659 in Kebbe Local Government Area.
In Illela Local Government Area, Mr Buhari scored 25, 217 votes, Mr Abubakar 16, 546; Sokoto North, Mr Buhari obtained 32, 943 votes and Abubakar got 20, 884 votes while in Raba LGA, Mr Buhari scored 15, 371votes against 10, 918 votes scored by Mr Abubakar.
Mr Buhari also scored 20, 307 votes in Wurno LGA while Mr Abubakar scored 9, 847 votes out of 33, 048 votes cast in the presidential election.
Mr Abubakar led in Tureta, Silame and Isa Local Government Areas where he scored 10, 209, 13, 949 and 17, 892 as Buhari got 8, 516, 10, 910 and 15, 264 votes obtained from the three councils.
Mr Bello said the collation of results would continue at noon on Monday as the centre awaits more results from 11 local government areas out of 23 LGAs in the state.
Atiku leads in Rivers
The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has taken an early lead in Saturday’s presidential poll results of eight out of nine Local Government Areas (LGA’s) of Rivers.
The results were announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) electoral officers with support of the collation officers from the LGA’s.
The results, which are still being collated across the state, showed the former Vice President leading in Oyigbo, Omuma, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni, Obio/Akpor, Eleme, Andoni, Gokana and Etche LGAs.
The results also showed the candidate of the All Prorgressives Congress (APC) and incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari trailing behind with a lead in Asari-Toru Local Government Area of the state.
The results from 13 other LGAs including Port Harcourt, Ikwerre, Emohua, Degema, Tai and Opobo/Nkoro, are, however, yet to be announced.
Others are Okirika, Ogu/Obolo, Khana, Abia/Odua, Ahoada East, Ahoada West, Akoku-Toru and Bonny LGAs
Atiku got a total of 222,045 in the nine LGAs, while Buhari got 71,734 votes.
The breakdown of the results showed that Atiku won in Oyigbo with 16,102 as against 3,520 votes of Mr Buhari while in Omuma, he got 15,322 as against 2, 494 of the incumbent President.
The results further showed that Atiku won in Ogba/Egbeme/Ndoni with 28,536, Obio/Akpor with 69,981, Eleme with 8,464, Andoni with 72,330, Etche with 11,135 and Gokana with 10,276.
Mr Buhari polled 18,180 votes to take lead in Asari-Toru while Atiku got 3,175.
NAN also reports that the PDP National Chairman, Uche Secondus, delivered his Andoni LGA to Atiku with 72,330 votes.
The Collation Officer for Andoni, Prof Prince Oghenekaro, while announcing the results, said that Ward 6 of the LGA had no election as election materials were allegedly carted away by hoodlums.
Also, Dr Godwin Ihenacho, a Collation Officer for Etche LGA, said that there was no election in Ward 14 of the area due to hijack of election materials.
The Collation Officer for Obio/Akpor LGA, Prof. Arthur Nwafor, said the result so far was from 13 out of 17 wards.
He added that four wards, 1, 3, 15 and 16, which generated a total of 4,000 votes, were not collated due to security situation in the wards at the time of collation.
The state Returning Officer of INEC, Prof. Aniefiok Essien, however, said that the results from the remaining LGA’s would be announced as soon as they arrived.
Atiku leads in Adamawa
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, is currently having a narrow lead in the ongoing collation of results in his home Adamawa State.
Results so far collated from 16 of the state’s 21 local government areas show that Mr Abubakar is leading with 22,000 votes.
The PDP won 317,088 from results so far calculated at the Independent National Electoral Commission’s office in Jimeta, near Yola. President Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressives Congress scores 295,088 votes.
Both candidates are neck-in-neck in the number of local government areas picked up, winning in eight each.
Collation is still underway as of 9:56 a.m.
Below is how both candidates have fared in the Adamawa State presidential election of February 23:
Mubi North Local Government
APC – 26,746
PDP – 23,156
Shelleng Local Government
APC – 13,531
PDP – 11, 912
Girei Local Government
APC – 17,765
PDP – 14,673
Yola North Local Government
APC – 43,865
PDP – 27,789
Numan Local Government
APC – 10,610
PDP – 23,469
Demsa Local Government
APC – 6,989
PDP – 29,997
Hong Local Government
APC – 20,471
PDP – 23,039
Ganye Local Government
APC – 20,360
PDP – 17,770
Guyuk Local Government
APC – 10,825
PDP – 22,059
Lamurde Local Government
APC – 8,123
PDP – 21,404
Yola South Local Government
APC – 34,534
PDP – 20,414
Mayo Belwa Local Government
APC – 20,842
PDP – 23,734
Mubi South Local Government
APC – 19,361
PDP – 10,514
Madagali Local Government
APC – 8,208
PDP – 14,594
Maiha Local Government
APC – 17,034
PDP – 7,916
Song Local Government
APC – 17,352
PDP – 22,648
Total:
APC – 295,088
PDP – 317,088.
Buhari leads in Lagos
President Muhammadu Buhari, the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is in early lead as INEC collated presidential election results of 15 local government areas of Lagos state.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that APC won in most of the local government results declared so far in the much awaited collation.
The exercise commenced at the INEC Office, Yaba, and it has been nonstop since Sunday night.
NAN reports that the President defeated his closest rival of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar in the Apapa, Ikorodu, Ibeju-Lekki, Ikeja, Epe, Badagry and Lagos Island local government areas election results announced and submitted.
Other local governments where the APC led are Agege, Ifako Ijaiye, Lagos Mainland, Mushin, Oshodi-Isolo.
However, PDP defeated APC in Surulere, Eti-Osa and Ojo in the results declared as at few minutes to 8 a.m on Monday.
The election results were presented and accepted by the state collation officer, Prof. Felix Salako, the Vice-Chancellor, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun.
The collation officer for Apapa LGA, Abiodun Babalola, who read the results, said that APC polled 18,170 votes while PDP scored 11, 295 votes in the council.
Apart from the People Coalition Party (PCP) that scored 238 votes and African Democratic Congress (ADC) that polled 108 votes, all other 69 political parties scored less than 100 votes each in the council.
Mr Babalola said out of the total registered voters of 186, 649, only 33, 095 were accredited for the poll.
He said that the total valid votes were 30, 680, the rejected votes were 1914 while the total votes cast were 32, 594.
The collation officer for Ibeju-Lekki LGA, Prof. Abduhamid Suleiman, said that APC polled 12,179 votes while the closest rival party, PDP scored 9, 222 votes.
Apart from the Accord Party that also polled 2,168 votes, PCP that polled 170 votes, African Action Congress (AAC) that scored 111, all other parties got below 100 votes each.
According to Mr Suleiman, out of the total registered voters of 109, 731, only 26,568 were accredited for the poll.
He said that the total valid votes were 24, 668, the rejected voted were 1327 while the total votes cast were 25, 995.
He added that the total valid votes were 36, 021, the rejected voted were 1967 while the total votes cast were 37, 988.
For Epe LGA, the collation officer, Dr Babatunde Adeoye, said that APC polled 17, 710 votes while the PDP scored 13, 306 votes.
Apart from PCP that scored 185 and AAC that got 53 votes, every other party got below 50 votes in the local government.
Also, the collation officer for Ikorodu LGA, the Collation Officer, Ilupeju Akanbi, said that APC polled 40, 719 votes while the PDP got 21,252 votes.
Apart from AAC that polled 410 votes, ADC that scored 184 votes, ANN that got 196 votes, DPP that polled 109 votes, PCP that had 375 votes and YPP that polled 215 votes, other parties got belowe 100 votes.
The Collation Officer for Badagry LGA, Prof.Adetokunbo Demiloye, said that APC polled 21, 417 votes while PDP polled 17, 939.
The Collation Officer for Lagos Island LGA, Dr Adepoju Tejumade while presenting the council results said that the APC polled 27, 452 votes while the PDP got 7396 votes.
While AAC scored 192, PCP scored 191 votes while all other political parties scored less than 100 votes each in the council.
According to Tejumade, out of the total registered voters of 194, 738, only 38, 285 were accredited for the elections.
Apart from AAC which got 212 votes, ADC that polled 109, PCP which got 384 and SNC that polled 155, all other parties score less than 100 votes.
Prof. Carol Opara, the Ikeja LGA Collation Officer said that APC polled 23, 638 votes while the PDP 21, 518 votes in the council.
Apart from AAC that also polled 566 votes, ANN which scored 492, PCP that polled 413 votes, YPP that got 503 votes, ADC that got 108 votes and FRESH Party that got 123 votes, all parties got less than 100 votes.
In Ifako Ijaiye LGA, APC polled 33, 419 votes while the PDP scored 18,100 votes while in Mushin LGA, APC polled 43, 543 and the PDP had 20, 277.
In Oshodi/Isolo LGA, the APC polled 29, 860 and PDP polled 28, 806, whereas in Lagos Mainland, APC polled 22,684 and PDP 15, 137.
In Agege LGA, APC scored 36, 443 and PDP got 16, 497 whereas in Surulere LGA, APC polled 30, 621 while the PDP garnered 31,603.
Meanwhile, in Ojo and Eti-Osa LGAs, PDP polled 29, 019 votes and 25, 216 votes respectively to defeat APC candidate who polled 24, 333 and 20, 962 respectively.
As at the time of filing this report, the centre was still awaiting results from Alimosho, Kosofe, Somolu and Amuwo-Odofin LGAs but that of Ajeromi-Ifelodun LGA had been brought and getting set for presentation as at 7:45am.
In the results declared so far by various returning officers, Mr Buhari led his closest rival, Mr Abubakar in the state with a wide margin.
Earlier in his address of welcome before the collation commenced, Sam Olumekun, the state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), commended the security agencies for the good job and called for sustenance of adequate security throughout the exercise.
Olumekun, who noted that nothing could be achieved without peace, however, frowned at the pockets of violence that greeted Saturday election in some areas of the state.
The INEC boss, who noted that violence, was not acceptable, urged stakeholders to channel their grievances to appropriate quarters.
The collation had in attendance heads and representatives of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) members headed by the Lagos State Police Commissioner CP Zubairu Muazu.
Buhari leads in Kogi Presidential election result
Olamaboro LGA
APC: 12,229
PDP: 11,325
Ofu LGA
APC: 13,171
PDP: 10,374
Koto LGA
APC: 16,588
PDP: 10,392
Kabba LGA
APC: 9,131
PDP: 14,888
Omalla LGA
APC: 8,206
PDP: 11,815
Yagba west LGA
APC: 7,175
PDP: 9,419
Ogori Mangogo LGA
APC: 2,323
PDP: 1,936
Okehi LGA
APC: 18,222
PDP: 11,965
Adavi LGA
APC: 24,843
PDP: 10,059
Ijumu LGA
APC: 8,507
PDP: 12,423
Yagba east LGA
APC: 5,687
PDP: 8,841
Okene LGA
APC: 37,617
PDP: 7,839
Lokoja LGA
APC: 24,985
PDP: 18,351
ATIKU WINS ABIA
Final Figures from the presidential election
PDP: 219, 698
APC: 85,068
Umuahia south
PDP: 9,539
APC: 5,831
Ikwuano
APC: 3,311
PDP: 7,345
Isiala Ngwa south
APC: 3,161
PDP: 12,467
Bende
APC: 9,233
PDP: 6,649
Osisioma
APC: 1,342
PDP: 9,454
Isiala Ngwa north
APC: 2,544
PDP: 13,500
Ugwunagbo
APC – 810
PDP – 9626
Ukwa east
APC: 1,454
PDP: 4,029
Arochukwu
APC: 2,112
PDP: 2,144
Isuikwuato
APC: 7,694
PDP: 5,748
Obingwa LGA
APC: 3303
PDP: 32,156
Ohafia LGA
APC: 6,487
PDP: 7,418
Aba north
APC:11,720
PDP: 22,957
Buhari leads in Bauchi Presidential election results
Alkaleri LGA
APC: 45,200
PDP: 10,213
Bogoro LGA
APC: 5284
PDP: 23, 664
Danbam LGA
APC: 22,329
PDP: 3048
Darazo LGA
APC: 37, 327
PDP: 6911
Dass LGA
APC: 21,221
PDP: 6413
Ganjuwa LGA
APC: 40,458
PDP: 8352
Giade LGA
APC: 23,534
PDP: 3940
Itas/Gadau LGA
APC: 33,829
PDP: 5889
Jamaare LGA
APC: 20,041
PDP: 4543
Kirfi LGA
APC: 22,035
PDP: 5272
Misau LGA
APC: 35,393
With agency report
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