The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won at polling unit–code 33, unit 2, Victoria Garden City (VGC), Lagos, where Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo cast his ballot.
The opposition party not only won the presidential poll but the national assembly as well.
For the presidential election, the PDP polled 425 votes while the APC had 229. In the senatorial election, the PDP had 414 votes while the APC had 261.
For the house of representatives election, the PDP had 268 while the APC had 190 votes.
Osinbajo and Fela Durotoye, presidential candidate of the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), voted at the same polling unit.
In the same vein, Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the PDP, has been announced as winner of the election at polling units at Aso Rock.
This was after a recount of votes by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). In the result initially announced, President Muhammadu Buhari lost to Atiku Abubakar, his main rival, by 17 votes.
While Atiku got 1,030 votes, Buhari trailed with 1,013 votes.
The officials were still collating results of the elections from voting when some party agents argued that the figures they had did not tally with the ones with the electoral officials.
Buhari and Atiku split the two units at the presidential villa. While Atiku garnered 525 votes at unit 022, Buhari trailed with 465.
Buhari polled more votes than his rival at unit 021, securing 552 as against Atiku’s 505.
At the end of the recount, the margin between Buhari and Atiku dropped from 17 to 13.
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