2019 Presidential Poll: Buhari extends lead to over 3m votes

President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has extended his lead over his main challenger, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to 3,468,890 votes from the results of Saturday’s presidential elections from 27 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC . READ: Comparison […]

2019 Presidential Poll: Buhari extends lead to over 3m votes

President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has extended his lead over his main challenger, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to 3,468,890 votes from the results of Saturday’s presidential elections from 27 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC .

READ: Comparison of 2015 vs 2019 Presidential election Results

The PDP has asked INEC to cancel the result of presidential election in Borno, Zamfara, Yobe and Nasarawa states while a new date should be fixed for a fresh poll.

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Buhari polled 12,061,230 votes while Atiku recorded 8,592,340.

READ: Live: 2019 Presidential Election Results (Official)

Meanwhile the market capitalisation of listed equities on Tuesday shed N85 billion in six hours of trading to what traders attributed to profit taking as result presidential poll.

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State APC PDP
Abia 85,058 219,698
Adamawa 378,078 410,266
Anambra 33,298 524,738
Bauchi 798,428 209,313
Benue 347,668 356,817
Ebonyi 90,726 258,573
Edo 267,842 275,691
Ekiti 219,231 154,032
Enugu 54,423 355,553
FCT 152,224 259,997
Gombe 402,961 138,484
Imo 140,463 334,923
Jigawa 794,738 289,895
Kaduna 993,445 649,612
Kano 1,464,768 391,593
Katsina 1,232,133 308,056
Kogi 285,894 218,207
Kwara 308,984 138,184
Lagos 580,825 448,015
Nasarawa 289,903 283,847
Niger 612,371 218,052
Ogun 281,762 194,655
Ondo 241,769 275,901
Osun 347,634 337377
Oyo 365,229 366,690
Plateau 468,555 548,665
Taraba 324,906 374,743
Yobe 497,914 50,763
TOTAL 12,061,230 8,592,340