The initial suspense and curiosity among Nigerians over the outcome
of last Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections began to
give way last night as President Muhammadu Buhari took the lead in four
of the country’s geo-political zones.
Other winners on
the Senate and House of Representatives elections also emerged. The
zones won by Buhari are the Northwest, the Northeast, the Southwest and
the North Central.
Results from states and local
government areas in the aforementioned zones showed that Buhari, the All
Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, will certainly
secure another term of four years. INEC will officially announce the
results after their submission by the state resident electoral
commissioners (REC) at the National Collation Centre in Abuja.
Results
declared by the commission’s officials at the polling units, wards and
local government areas put Buhari far ahead his main rival, Alhaji Atiku
Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
At the time
of filing this report last night, results available to LEADERSHIP,
which key stakeholders confirmed showed that Buhari was fully in control
of the Northwest. It was learnt that Buhari already had 20 states
across the country in his kitty. Buhari also made impressive showing in
the Southwest zone, where he won in most of the states in the region.
Except Oyo State, where the coast was not very clear at the time of
filing this report last night, Buhari took the lead in other states in
the entire region Of the seven local governments released in Borno
State, Buhari won in all of them. He also swept all the councils in his
home state of Katsina where all the APC senatorial candidates also
defeated their rivals. The situation was the same in Gombe State where
the president defeated his main rival, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in seven of the nine local government
results released by INEC.
Source:- Leadershipng
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