NIGERIADECIDES2019: SO FAR, BUHARI LEADS WITH 2,976,721 VOTES; COLLATION RESUMES 10AM TUESDAY
Joseph Omoniyi
Buhari, who though fell behind in the Ebonyi State election result having 90,726 votes as against Atiku’s 258,573, currently leads with a difference of 286,105.
After the collation of the presidential election results from 11 states and the FCT, candidate of the APC, President Muhammadu Buhari leads with, 2,976,616 votes, while PDP’s Atiku Abubakar follows very closely with 2,690,105 votes.
The states whose results have been officially announced by INEC so far are, Ekiti(won by APC), Osun(won by APC), FCT(won by PDP), Kwara(won by APC), Nassarawa(won by APC), Ondo(won by PDP), Kogi(won APC), Gombe(won by APC), Abia(won by PDP), Yobe(won by APC), Enugu(won by PDP), and Ebonyi(won by PDP),which means the APC candidate has won 7 states while PDP’s had victory in 5.
The official announcement of the election results was postponed till 10 AM on Tuesday after it was clear that no other state was ready for submission of their election results.
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