News Update (April 17, 2011
01:47 PM...)
Jonathan wins Nigeria's
presidential election
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WorldStage Newsonline--
With the result so far released
by the Nigeria's Independent
National Electoral Commission,
the incumbent President
Goodluck Jonathan has won the
presidential election held across
the country on Saturday. With
only Borno,Yobe, Taraba,
Katsina, Nasarawa and Niger
State results expected shortly,
President Jonathan has so far
won the mandatory 25 per cent
in 28 states plus Federal Capital
Territory and got 16 per cent of
the votes cast in Bauchi and
Kano States. Altogether, his
party PDP has won 20, 290, 819,
followed by CPC with 8,610,230,
ACN of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu won
2,098,305 and ANPP: 624,777.
A winner needs the majority of
votes and at least 25 per cent of
votes in 24 states of the 36
states of the federation. So far
Jonathan of the Peoples
Democratic Party has won 25
per cent in some 28 states,
leaving his closest rival, Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari of the
Congress for Progressive Change
with victories in only 12 states.
The only state Jonathan was
unable to lead in the South is
Osun while in the north, he won
majority of votes cast in
Adamawa, Gombe, Taraba,
Plateau, Kogi, Kwara, with
results from Niger still pending.
The only results that had been
declared at the Electoral
Institute, the official collation
center for the election were
those of FCT, Enugu, Osun, Ondo,
Kogi and Ogun.
Results from Sokoto gave PDP
309, 057 votes, CPC 540,759. In
Katsina, PDP had 424,527 while
CPC polled 1,154,000 votes. From
Kaduna, PDP had 1,190,129 and
CPC had 1,334,244. Voters in
Kano who numbered over 5
million gave CPC 1,624,543 votes,
PDP 443,625, ANPP had 526,310
and ACN had 42,353 votes. The
results from Kebbi gave PDP
369,198 votes and the CPC,
501,453. From Bauchi, PDP had
258,404 votes to CPC's
1,315,209 votes. Voters in
Jigawa gave PDP 491,252 and
663,994 to CPC. Nasarawa went
the way of CPC with 278,390
votes to PDP's 40,897 votes.
Congratulation mr. President
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