JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared victory after a tight national election appeared to give him the upper hand in forming the country's next coalition government.

In a statement released on Twitter, Netanyahu says that "against all odds" his Likud party and the nationalist camp secured a "great victory."

Initial exit polls showed Netanyahu's Likud Party deadlocked with the center-left Zionist Union.

But the results indicated that Netanyahu will have an easier time cobbling together a majority coalition with hard-line and religious allies.

Netanyahu said he had already begun to call potential partners.

http://news.yahoo.com/israelis-vote-parliament-campaign-focused-economy-050717064.html

Culled from Ibrahim on facebook:

For building Almajiri school alone, i and my family will vote for GEJ, because they said BUHARI fought for corruption in the past but achieved nothing. So what can he boast that he achieved for us back then? Am educated to know better.