Buhari wins Nigerian voters

Incumbent President on Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari is an unequivocal leader of the election race according to the provisional results.

Nigeria's Buhari leads in election count as death toll mounts https://t.co/KdkneyXhCh pic.twitter.com/kNRSalmqGk

— Reuters (@Reuters) February 26, 2019

The results showed that incumbent President main rival, businessman and former vice president Atiku Abubakar, could no longer catch up.

Good afternoon Waziri @Atiku, the INEC has just officially announced Lagos presidential election result, 20 states have been officially announced so far, it’s now so very obvious you have lost to President @MBuhari, should I drop his phone number now? #NigeriaDecides pic.twitter.com/t26dgbsReJ

— Bashir Ahmad (@BashirAhmaad) February 26, 2019

The candidate with the most votes nationwide is declared winner as long as they have at least one-quarter of the vote in two-thirds of Nigeria’s 36 states and the capital Abuja, otherwise there is a run-off. Buhari has already secured enough votes to avoid a run-off vote the officials said.

#NigeriaDecides2019 Buhari wins Katsina
Buhari won the election in Katsina State by an overwhelming margin

According to Prof. Fatima Mukhtar, the Collation Officer for the state, Buhari polled 1,232,133 votes to defeat his PDP opponent, Atiku Abubakar, who scored 308,056 votes pic.twitter.com/I07wrg5Dqh

— Punch Newspapers (@MobilePunch) February 26, 2019

AMENDED:

Yesterday I visited our Presidential Campaign Headquarters in Abuja. I met the very hardworking members of our Team, many of them young people, and was briefed on the performance of our party so far in the Presidential Elections. I am very proud of what has been accomplished. pic.twitter.com/O0dgZep31w

— Muhammadu Buhari (@MBuhari) February 26, 2019