Barring any attempt to scuttle the will of the
people, the stage seems set for a change of
leadership in the nation’s polity with results of the
weekend’s presidential polls indicating that the
candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC),
Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd), is in comfortable
lead in three of the country’s six geo-political
zones.
The zones include the two largest ones – North
West and South West. Buhari also polled more
votes than his arch-rival and candidate of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), President
Goodluck Jonathan, in North East zone.
The incumbent president clinched the South South
and the South East. Both candidates have shared
the spoils in in North Central zone with Buhari
winning in Kogi, Kwara and Niger states while
Jonathan cornered Nasarawa, Plateau and Benue.
Our correspondents reported that from results
trickling in from the collation centres, the former
military head of state has emerged the preferred
choice of the people in the presidential poll.
“There is no doubt the race has been won and lost
and that Gen Buhari has won,” a source at the INEC
office confided in LEADERSHIP.
“Clearly, it is three zones to two; and after winning
North West which has Kano and South West with
Lagos, the two most populated states and zones,
nothing can stop him.”
Jonathan lost vital polling units, including the one
at the seat of power where he resides, 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,
Musliu Obanikoro posted dismal results in their
home units. Many other high-profile politicians lost
their polling units to opposition parties.
The Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) is yet to announce the result of the
presidential election, but the director of media, PDP
Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO), Mr
Femi Fani-Kayode, claimed, in a press statement
yesterday, that Jonathan had won in 23 states and
APC in 14. Nigeria has 36 states.
APC spokesman, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, however,
raise the alarm that President Jonathan and his
cronies were working round the clock to manipulate
the people’s mandate by unlawfully coveting
majority votes or rendering the elections
inconclusive.
When asked, INEC chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega,
faulted Fani-Kayode’s claim that the PDP was
leading in 23 states, or 64 percent, in the
presidential poll.
He said that the only results received were from
two states, Ekiti and Ogun.
He also declared that the commission was not
under any pressure to declare the outcome of the
presidential election inconclusive, while expressing
worry at the crisis in River State, stating that the
commission was investigating it and would take a
position soon.
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