Presidential candidate of the All Progressives
Congress, APC, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) has
trounced President Goodluck Jonathan in Saturday’s
elections conducted inside the Presidential Villa,
Abuja.
The the nation’s seat of power has two polling
units- Unit 021 and 022- located side-by-side. In
the two units, Buhari scored a total of 613 votes
while Jonathan polled a total of 595 votes.
While Jonathan beat Buhari at Unit 021 to second
position with 293 votes as against the APC
candidate’s 265 votes, Buhari emerged winner at the
second polling booth, Unit 022, with 348 against the
302 polled by Jonathan.
As regards the Senatorial election in Unit 021, PDP
polled 286 votes to beat APC with 260, while in Unit
022, APC polled 337 votes against the 281 votes
secured by PDP.
For the House of Representatives election in Unit
022, APC polled 334 to beat PDP to distant second
with 241 votes.
For Unit 021 however, it was a close contest
between APC that won with 255 votes and PDP that
polled 254.
A total of 575 voters were accredited out of the
2,181 registered voters for Unit 021 while 770 voters
were accredited out of the 2,278 voters registered
for Unit 022.
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The sorting and counting of the votes ended at
11.30pm. This made some voters to light up the
venue with the headlamps of their cars.