INEC Officially Declares Buhari Winner Of 2019 General Election

The Independent National Electoral

Commission (INEC) has officially

declared President Muhammadu Buhari

of the All Progressives Congress as the

winner of the 2019 presidential general election,

defeating his oposition Atiku Abubakar of the PDP with

over three million votes

Mahmood Yakubu said the duty of the

Independent National Electoral Commission

(INEC) is to conclude and collate the

presidential result for final declaration.

He said on the problem of accredited voters

not adding up to number of voters, Yajubu

said the problem affects less than 2 per cent

of voters and thus does not affect the

general conclusion.

He said in Yobe and Akwa Ibom, the

numbers add up.

He said on the request of the opening of the

commission’s backlend for verification and

cross checking of voters, he says it is not a

matter of law. He said the discussion can be

continued after the end of this process.

INEc chairman, Mahmood Yakubu signs the

collation form

Osita Chidoka representing the Peoples

Democratic Party said there was a

discrepancy of more than 1,600, 000 voters

in terms of registered voters.

He said the cancelled votes affected more

than 2 million voters. He claimed there

were 5.1 million votes that cannot be

accounted for and thus called for a rerun.

Scoresheet of the presidential candidates

In his response, Yakubu said the asserting

that 5.1 million voters could not vote

because of card readers is not true. He also

said when card readers are deliberately

circumvented, votes will be cancelled.