The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday announced the official result of last Saturday’s presidential election in Borno State with President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winning by a landslide.
The state’s Returning Officer (RO) for the presidential poll, Prof. Saminu Ibrahim of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi, announced the results at the collation centre of Kashim Ibrahim Collage of Education in Maiduguri, the state capital.
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He said President Buhari scored 836,496 votes over his closest rival, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who got 71,788 votes. A summary of the results is as follows:
APC’s Buhari = 836,496
PDP’s Atiku = 71,788
Total valid votes for Borno = 919,783
Total rejected votes for Borno = 35,419
Total votes cast for Borno = 955,202
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