Nigeria Decides: Jonathan Leads Buhari In Popular Vote

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The latest official results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by the chairman of INEC Prof Attahiru Jega showed that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Goodluck Jonathan has won majority of the popular votes getting 2,322,734 votes while the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) General Muhammadu Buhari got 2,302,978 votes.

With this result Jonathan is beating Buhari with 19,756 votes. However  Buhari won in five states, Ogun, Kogi, Osun, Ondo, Oyo where he got 308290, 264851, 383603, 299889, 528620 respectively as against 207950, 149987, 249929, 251368, 303376 votes in the aforementioned states.

Jonathan on the other hand won in Ekiti, Enugu, FCT and Nasarawa states where he got 176466, 553003, 157195 and 273460 votes respectively as against 120,331, 14,157, 146399 and 236838 gotten by Buhari in the aforementioned states and FCT.