President Muhammadu Buhari and presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has trounced his main challenger in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar right in his Polling Unit of Adamawa State, in the presidential and parliamentary elections conducted today, Saturday.
President Buhari also won the election in the polling unit of the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, who has been the strong supporting pillar for Atiku.
Reports of the results twinkling in from various polling units as they were being counted publicly before they were moved to Wards, Local Governments and States showed that in Central Primary School (I) Polling Unit Jada, Adamawa, Buhari of the APC polled 475 while Atiku of the PDP polled 140 even as in Obasanjo’s Polling Unit in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Buhari got a total vote of 87 as Atiku got 18. In another polling unit in Adamawa, Buhari polled 242 votes to defeat Atiku with 60 votes.
In Katsina state, results from the Emir’s palace in Daura, Katsina showed that while Buhari polled 150 votes, Atiku got zero vote even as Buhari scored 226 in Baruma II in the same Katsina as Atiku got zero vote too. In Baruma III, Buhari got 348 votes while Atiku managed to get five votes.
More results later.
