INEC chairman Mahmood Yakubu said Buhari from All Progressives Congress (APC) won the Sunday presidential vote with 15,191,847 votes against 11,262,978 for his main challenger Atiku Abubakar from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Buhari, according to the commission, won votes in 19 of the 36 states. Osita Chidoka, representing the PDP, said there was a discrepancy of more than 1,600,000 voters in terms of registered voters, local media Naija.com reports. Chidoka added that votes cancelled over violence in some parts of the country effected more than 2 per cent of the registered voters. The PDP’s member, charging the electoral commission for omitting over 5 million votes, demanded a rerun.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 27, 2019 12:56 UTC