INEC Presents Certificate Of Return To Buhari, Osinbajo

INEC Presents Certificate Of Return To Buhari, Osinbajo:

The
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday presented
the Certificate of Return to the president-elect and winner of the just
concluded presidential election, President Muhammadu Buhari.

The
INEC Chairman, Professor Yakubu Mahmood, presented the Certificate to
President Buhari and the vice-president-elect, Yemi Osinbajo, at the
International Conference Center in Abuja.

Concise News
reports that the INEC chairman said that the President and his vice will
receive their certificate of return after declaring the candidate of
the All Progressives Congress (APC) as President-elect, following final
collation of results in the early hours of Wednesday.

Yakubu
said: “Ladies and gentlemen, in fulfillment of the electoral act which
says that a certificate of return shall be issued not less than seven
days to the declaration of the winner, I hereby announce that the
certificate of return will be issued to the President-elect and Vice
President-elect at 2pm today in this very hall.”

Buhari, who is
the incumbent President, defeated the candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, to emerge winner in the keenly
contested poll.

Announcing the final results of the election on
Wednesday, Professor Mahmood said President Buhari polled a total of
15,191,847 to defeat his closest rival and the PDP candidate, Atiku, who
polled 11,262,978.

From start, Buhari proved to be the man to
beat, leading all other candidates and ending with a wide margin of
almost four million votes ahead of Atiku, and drawing his largest block
of votes from the core Northern states.