All Hail the Chief: Jonathan is Elected President (See All States Results)

BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE, Deputy Political Editor THE TOTAL SO FAR: Jonathan (PDP) 22million, Buhari (CPC) 10.8million and Ribadu (ACN) 2.2million LAGOS – WITH provisional results from 35 states of the country including the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is on his way to retaining presidential power until May 29, 2015. From left, Prof. Attahiru Jega displaying result sheet at Collation Center in Abuja, while His Personal Assistance Abdullahi Usaman and INEC Commissioner Hamina Zakare look on at Collation Centre in Abuja. Photo by Gbemiga Olamikan And barring further delays, he will be declared as winner of the 2011 presidential elections today by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, whose Chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega, said the results would be ready in 48 hours after the polls. Jonathan swept the polls in all the 17 states of the South except Osun, which was won by Malam Nuhu Ribadu of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN. He also had the elections under wraps in the FCT, Benue, Plateau, Kwara, Kogi, Adamawa and Taraba, thereby winning outright in 23 states. He lost all the seven North-West states of Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara and Jigawa as well as Bauchi, Gombe, Niger, Borno and Yobe to his closest challenger, Maj General Muhammadu Buhari of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC. He nevertheless scored at least 25 per cent of votes cast in the affected states apart from Kano and Niger. The President recorded his best performances in Akwa Ibom, Abia, Anambra, Bayelsa, Delta, Ebonyi, Enugu and Rivers states where he garnered more than 90 per cent of the valid votes cast. Buhari won in 12 states with his best performance in his home state of Katsina where he recorded 73.10 per cent of the votes cast. So far, Jonathan is ahead of his challengers with 21, 957, 849 votes followed by Buhari (10,884,669 votes) and Ribadu, 2,020,077 votes.

PROVISIONAL RESULTS AT A GLANCE

PDP CPC ACN *

1.ABIA PDP 1,175,984 CPC 3,743 ACN n/a *

2. ADAMAWA PDP 508,314 CPC 344,526 ACN

3. AKWA IBOM PDP 1,165,629 CPC 5,348 ACN 54,148

 4. ANAMBRA PDP 1,145,169 CPC 4,223 ACN 3,437

5. BAUCHI PDP 258,000 CPC 1, 300,000

6. BAYELSA PDP 504,811 CPC 691 ACN 370

7. BENUE PDP 658,472 CPC 102,171 ACN 223,007

 *8. BORNO PDP 207,075 CPC 909,763

*9. CROSS RIVER PDP 709,382 CPC 4,002 ACN 5,839

*10. DELTA PDP 1,368,851 CPC 8,960 ACN 13,146

*11. EBONYI PDP 480,592 1 CPC 1,025 ACN 1,102

*12. EDO PDP 542, 173 CPC 17,795

13. EKITI PDP 135,009 CPC 2,689 ACN 116,981

14. ENUGU PDP 802,144 CPC 3,753 ACN 1,755

15. FCT PDP 253,444 CPC 131,576 ACN 2327

*16. GOMBE PDP 290,347 CPC 459, 898 ACN 3,420

17. IMO PDP 1,381,357 CPC 7,591 ACN 14,821

*18. JIGAWA PDP 491,252 CPC 663,994 ACN n/a

*19. KADUNA PDP 1,190,179 CPC 1,334,244 ACN 11,278

*20. KANO PDP 440,665 CPC 1,624,543 ACN 42,353

*21. KATSINA PDP 424,587 CPC 1,154,000 ACN n/a

*22. KEBBI PDP 369,198 CPC 501,453 ACN n/a

23. KOGI PDP 399,816 CPC 132,201 ACN 6,516

24. KWARA PDP 268,243 CPC 83,603 ACN 52, 432

25. LAGOS PDP 1,281,688 CPC 189,983 ACN 427,203

26. NIGER PDP 321429 CPC 652574

27. NASARAWA PDP 408,997 CPC 278,390

28.OGUN PDP 309,177 CPC 17,654 ACN 199,555

29. ONDO PDP 387, 376 CPC 11,890 ACN 74,253

30. OSUN PDP 188,409 CPC 6,997 ACN 299, 711

31. OYO PDP 484,758 CPC 92,396 ACN 252,240

*32. PLATEAU PDP 1,029,809 CPC 356, 551 ACN 10, 181

*33. RIVERS PDP 1,817,762 CPC 13,182 ACN 16,382

34. SOKOTO PDP 309,057 CPC 540,769 ACN 20,144

35 TARABA PDP 451,354 CPC 257,987 ACN 17,791

36. YOBE PDP 117,128 CPC 337547 ACN 6069

*37. ZAMFARA PDP 238,980 CPC 624,515 ACN 17,970wp_posts

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