PRESIDENTIAL POLL: It’s Goodluck!

PRESIDENTIAL POLL: It’s Goodluck!

On April 18, 2011 · · In Headlines

BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE, Deputy Political Editor
THE TOTAL SO FAR: Jonathan (PDP) 22million, Buhari (CPC) 10.8million  and Ribadu (ACN) 2.2million
LAGOS – WITH provisional results from 35 states of the country including the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is on his way to retaining presidential power until May 29, 2015.

From left, Prof. Attahiru Jega displaying result sheet at Collation Center in Abuja, while His Personal Assistance Abdullahi Usaman and INEC Commissioner Hamina Zakare look on at Collation Centre in Abuja. Photo by Gbemiga Olamikan http://www.nigerianjobs24.com/

And barring further delays, he will be declared as winner of the 2011 presidential elections today by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, whose Chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega, said the results would be ready in 48 hours after the polls.
Jonathan swept the polls in all the 17 states of the South except Osun, which was won by Malam Nuhu Ribadu of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN.
He also had the elections under wraps in the FCT, Benue, Plateau, Kwara, Kogi, Adamawa and Taraba, thereby winning outright in 23 states.
He lost all the seven North-West states of Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara and  Jigawa as well as Bauchi, Gombe, Niger, Borno and Yobe to his closest challenger, Maj General Muhammadu Buhari of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC. He nevertheless scored at least 25 per cent of votes cast in the affected states apart from Kano and Niger.http://www.nigerianjobs24.com/
The President recorded his best performances in Akwa Ibom, Abia, Anambra, Bayelsa, Delta, Ebonyi, Enugu and Rivers states where he garnered more than 90 per cent of the valid votes cast.
Buhari won in 12 states with his best performance in his home state of Katsina where he recorded 73.10 per cent of the votes cast.
So far, Jonathan is ahead of his challengers with 21, 957, 849 votes followed by Buhari (10,884,669 votes) and Ribadu, 2,020,077 votes.

PDP          CPC        ACN         ANPP
 
 ABIA            1,175,984        3,743      4,392        1,455
 ADAMAWA           508,314      344,526     32,786          n/a
 AKWA-IBOM       1,165,629        5,348     54,148        2,000
 ANAMBRA         1,145,169        4,223      3,537          975
 BAUCHI            258,404    1,315,209     16,674        8,777
 BAYELSA           504,811          691        370          136
 BENUE             694,776      109,680    223,007        8,592
 BORNO             207,075      909,763        n/a          n/a
 CROSS RIVER*      605,057        3,715      4,808        2,314
 DELTA           1,378,851        8,960     13,110        2,746
 EBONYI            480,592        1,025      1,112       14,296
 EDO               542,173       17,795     54,242        2,174
 EKITI             185,009        2,689    116,981        1,482
 ENUGU             802,144        3,753      1,755        1,111
 FCT               253,444      131,576      2,327        3,170
 GOMBE             290,376      495,898        n/a          n/a
 IMO             1,381,357        7,591     14,821        2,520
 JIGAWA            491,252      663,994     17,353        7,676
 KADUNA          1,190,179    1,334,244     11,278       17,301
 KANO              440,666    1,624,543     42,353      526,310
 KATSINA           428,392    1,163,919     10,945        6,342
 KEBBI             369,198      501,453        n/a          n/a
 KOGI              399,816      132,201      6,516       16,491
 KWARA             268,243       83,603     52,432        1,672
 LAGOS           1,281,688      189,983    427,203        8,941
 NASARAWA          408,997      278,390      1,204        1,047
 NIGER             321,429      652,574     13,344        7,138
 OGUN              309,177       17,654    199,555        2,969
 ONDO              387,376       11,890     74,253        6,741
 OSUN              188,409        6,997    299,711        3,617
 OYO               484,758       92,396    252,240        7,156
 PLATEAU         1,029,865      356,551     10,181        5,235
 RIVERS          1,817,762       13,182     16,382        1,449
 SOKOTO            309,057      540,769     20,144        5,063
 YOBE              117,128      337,537      6,069      143,179
 ZAMFARA           238,180      624,515     17,970       46,554
 
 TOTAL          22,060,737   11,992,580  2,023,203      866,629
 
 CANDIDATES AND PARTIES

PDP - Goodluck Jonathan (People's Democratic Party)
 CPC - Muhammadu Buhari (Congress for Progressive Change)
 ACN - Nuhu Ribadu (Action Congress of Nigeria)
 ANPP - Ibrahim Shekarau (All Nigeria Peoples Party)
 
 * Results for Cross Rivers are for 17 of 18 local government areas (LGAs). 

The count from the final LGA is being brought by
canoe from a remote and rugged region

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