The Presidential candidate of the All Progressive
Congress(APC), Muhammadu Buhari has maintained his position as the president of
Nigeria following the announcement of results from the Independent Electoral
Commission.
Muhammadu Buhari defeated the candidate of the People
Democractic Party (PDP) , Alh. Atiku Abubakar and other candidates to emerge
winner.
He garnered a total of 15,016,410 votes, closely followed by
PDP Atiku Abubakar, who had a total 11,938,661votes making the APC candidate
win by a margin of over 3million votes.
The election results however isn’t without critics, there
has been critics from far and wide over the announcement and the PDP also
ordered INEC to stop the announcement of the results because they are being
cheated.
According to the party, the results collated from states are
with them and it is contradicting the one INEC is announcing which appears not
to be In their favour.
The election observers has also faulted INEC and released
their version of the results which portrayed PDP as winner of the election as
against what is being announced.
However, INEC has remained unshakened by this and has
continued the announcement of results with no hinderances.