Nigeria appears to be at the cusp of history with yesterday’s election indicating that the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, may clinch a majority of the votes in the presidential poll.

Incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan and candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lost at the polling unit at the seat of power, Aso Villa, Abuja.

Many of his cabinet members, including the minister of education, Ibrahim Shekarau, his Federal Capital Territory (FCT)counterpart, Bala Mohammed, and the minister of state (II) for foreign affairs, posted dismal results in their home units. Many other high-profile politicians lost their polling units to opposition parties.

At his polling unit in Giginyu Ward in Nassarawa local government area of Kano State, Shekarau, suffered a wide-margin defeat. The former governor who ruled the state between 2003 and 2001 lost his unit to the APC candidate, Buhari, who scored 324 votes. The PDP polled just 17 votes. Giginyu ward is one of the largest units in Kano.

FCT minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, also lost his Jubril Aminu Secondary School polling unit to the APC. In the presidential election, PDP scored only 96 while the APC received 326 votes. For the Senate results, the PDP scored 116 while the APC got 301. In the House of Representatives, the PDP got 102 while the APC received 310.

The minister of foreign affairs (II), Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, also bit the dust as he failed to win his Ikoyi polling unit for President Jonathan and the PDP. In the presidential result, it was APC 62, PDP 38; in the Senate poll, APC got 58, PDP 44; in the House of Reps, APC got 56, PDP 38.

Similarly, Odua People’s Congress (OPC) leader, Ganiyu Adams, a staunch Jonathan supporter who recently made headlines with group’s his rally in Lagos, also lost his ward to the APC. In the OPC leader’s ward, it was APC 155, PDP 45.

 

APC floors PDP in Aso Rock polling unit

Another upset occurred at the polling unit closest to the seat power as the results of the presidential election in polling unit 022 at the presidential villa, Abuja, showed that the APC (Buhari) defeated PDP (Jonathan) with about 93 votes. According to the result after the election of the presidential poll, APC scored 334 votes, while PDP got 241.

The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) trailed behind with 45 votes, while Labour got 11 votes. Invalid votes were 16.

Sam Nda-Isaiah wins unit in Niger for APC

The chairman, LEADERSHIP Group, and former presidential aspirant of the APC, Sam Nda-Isaiah, won his polling unit at the Kofar Danjuma Mainadi in Chachanga local government area of Niger State for the APC.

In the presidential election, the APC scored 477 votes while the PDP received 37. For the Senate election, the APC got 401 while the PDP received 109. In the House of Representatives, APC secured 417 votes while the PDP received 92 votes.

Sambo wins own unit in Kaduna

Vice President Namadi Sambo won his polling unit as he defeated the APC at his new polling unit during yesterday’s presidential and National Assembly elections.

In the 2011 general elections, Sambo was defeated in his polling unit, ward and local government.

But he secured a resounding victory during yesterday’s polls. The Returning Officer, Olorufemi Raphael, while announcing the results at the Kabala Doki Ward 5, Police College polling unit 11, said the PDP polled 105 votes, APC 20 votes, NCP 01, and APA 01.

Sambo had earlier, on the eve of yesterday’s election, relocated his polling unit from Link/Camp Road to Swimming Pool road by the Kaduna Police College fence, ostensibly to avoid losing again this year.

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