INEC continues announcement of results today Olusola Fabiyi, Friday Olokor, Kamarudeen Ogundele, Armstrong Bakam, Adeniyi Olugbemi and Tunji Bosun The Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday started the announcement of the results of Saturday’s presidential election. As of the time of filing this report, INEC had announced the result in 10 states and the Federal Capital Territory. The states are Ondo, Ekiti, Gombe, Kwara, Kogi, Yobe, Abia, Osun, Nasarawa, Ebonyi, Enugu and the Federal Capital Territory. The results were announced by the returning officers of the states at the National Collation Centre in Abuja. The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, President Muhammadu Buhari, won in Ekiti, Nasarawa, Yobe, Kwara, Kogi and Gombe, while his closest rival, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, won in Ondo, Abia, Ebonyi and the FCT. However, some results declared by collation officers in states which have not been taken to the national collation centre in Abuja reveal that Buhari is in strong lead. The states where Buhari is leading in this category include Bauchi, Lagos, Ogun and Sokoto, Jigawa, Kaduna while Atiku has won in Adamawa and Plateau states. Buhari wins in Kwara with 308,984 votes In Kwara State, Buhari won the election having scored 308,984 votes, as announced by INEC. The result was announced on Monday at the National Collation Centre, Abuja, by Prof. Abdullahi Bala, of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State, who is the Collation Officer for the election in Kwara. Bala, while announcing the result, said Atiku scored 138,984 votes. He said Prof. Kingsley Moghalu of the Young Progressives Party secured 140 votes; Ositelu Babatunde of Accord (A) got 149 votes; while Ibrahim Hassan of the African Peoples Alliance scored 1,010 votes. Bala gave the number of total registered voters in the state as 1,401,895; total accredited voters 489,482; Total valid votes 459,676, total votes cast at 486,254 and rejected votes to be 26,578. Atiku floors Buhari in Adamawa However, Atiku was declared the winner of the election in his home state of Adamawa. Declaring the result on Monday in Yola, the Presidential Election Returning Officer for Adamawa, Prof. Andrew Yakubu, said Abubakar scored 410,266 votes to defeat the APC candidate who scored 378,078 votes. Yakubu said the total number of registered voters in the state was 1,959,322, while 874,920 voters were accredited The Presidential election results are from the 21 local government areas of Adamawa. The PDP won in 11 LGAs, while the APC had 10. INEC announces Buhari winner in Ekiti INEC however announced Buhari of the APC as winner of Saturday’s election in Ekiti. The result was announced at the National Collation Centre, Abuja, by Prof. Idowu Olayinka, Vice-Chancellor, University of Ibadan, who is the Collation Officer for the election in the state. Olayinka said Buhari polled 219, 231 votes to beat Atiku, who scored 154,032 votes. Felix Nicholas of Peoples Coalition Party was third with 2,299 votes. According to him, Moghalu of YPP scored 68 votes, Mr Da-Sliva Ayo of Save Nigeria Congress polled 339 votes, and Omoyele Sowere of the African Action Congress got 400 votes. Other scores, Olayinka said, were 406 votes for the African Democratic Congress and 88 votes for Durotoye Olufela of Alliance for New Nigeria. He said that total registered voters in Ekiti was 899,919, but that 395,741 were accredited, while total votes cast in the poll was 393,709, with 12, 577 rejected. Olayinka noted that the number of political parties on the ballot paper was responsible for the high number of voided votes in the election. Buhari defeats Atiku in Ogun Also in Ogun State, Prof. Joseph Adeola-Fuwape, the state Collation Officer for the Presidential election, declared Buhari as the winner of the poll. Adeola-Fuwape, who announced the result at the INEC headquarters in Abeokuta on Monday, said Buhari scored 281,762 votes, while his closest rival scored 194,655 votes. Adeola-Fuwape, who is the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, said the total number of registered voters was 2,336, 887 while the total number of accredited voters was 613,397. Adeola-Fuwape added that the number of valid votes was 564, 256 while 41,682 votes were rejected. He also said the total number of votes cast was 605, 938. He said Buhari won in 14 of the 20 council areas in the state while Atiku won in six council areas. Buhari wins in Sokoto INEC has also declared Buhari as the winner of the presidential election in Sokoto State with a margin of 138,729 votes. Announcing the results at the Sultan Muhammadu Maccido Institute for Qur’an and General Studies, Prof. Mohammed Yahuza, the state returning officer for the presidential election, stated that Buhari polled 490,333 votes ahead of Atiku who scored 351,604. Significantly, Buhari recorded massive win at Wamakko, Sokoto South, Wurno, Sokoto North, Gwadabawa and Tambuwal Local Government Areas of the state. The PDP, however, put up a good showing in Silame, Isa, Tureta and Gudu Local Government Areas, out of the entire 23 LGAs in the state. Out of the total 1,895,256 registered voters in the state, 950,107 were accredited for the election. Out of this number, 925,940 voted; 871,891 were valid votes cast, and 54,049 recorded as voided votes. Buhari triumphs over Atiku in Gombe Buhari also won the election in Gombe State after polling 403,961 votes out of 580,649 total votes cast in the state. The result was announced on Monday at INEC National Collation Centre in Abuja, by the State Returning Officer, Prof. Kyari Mohammed. Mohammed, who is also the Vice-Chancellor of Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, said Atiku scored 138,484 votes in the state. He said that out of the 1,385,191 total registered voters in the state, 604,240 were accredited. The number of valid votes was 554,203, while 26,446 were rejected. Mohammed said election was cancelled in 13 polling units in two Local Government Areas with 7,090 registered voters in the affected areas. The cancelled polling units include 11 in Balanga LGA with 6,308 voters and two polling units with 782 registered voters in Duku LGA. Atiku sweeps Ebonyi INEC has declared Atiku winner in the presidential poll held in Ebonyi State on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the APC in the state had, however, rejected the result and vowed to challenge it through appropriate channels. The Presidential Election Collation Officer in the state, Prof. Chukwuemeka Eze, supervised the declaration of the results by INEC’s collation officers in the 13 local government areas in the state at the commission’s headquarters in Abakaliki. Eze said Atiku garnered 258, 575 votes as against Buhari’s 90, 726 votes. According to the results declared, Atiku won in 12 LGAs leaving Buhari with victory in Ikwo council. Reacting to the result, Chairman of the APC in the state, Mr Eze Nwachukwu, called for the cancellation of the election citing intimidation, electoral violence and over-voting, allegedly committed by the ruling party in the state as reasons. INEC declares Buhari as winner in Kogi However, INEC announced Buhari as the winner of the election in Kogi State. The result was announced at the National Collation Centre (ICC) Abuja, by Prof. Michael Adikwu, the Vice-Chancellor, University of Abuja, who is the Collation Officer for the election in the state. Adikwu announced that Buhari polled 285,894 votes to defeat the PDP candidate, Atiku, who scored 218,207 votes. Dr Obadiah Mailafia of the African Democratic Congress came third with 4,369 votes. He said the number of registered voters in Kogi was 1,640,449 but that 570,773 were accredited, while votes cast were 553,496 with 32,480 rejected. Adikwu noted that there were cases of violence in 15 out of 21 Local Government Areas in the state, which led to cancellation of 89, 101 votes. Buhari defeats Atiku in Bauchi President Buhari of the APC has won the presidential election in Bauchi State. According to results announced by the Local Government Collation Officers in Bauchi on Monday, Buhari polled 798,438 to defeat Atiku. The State Collation Officer who is the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University, Kashere, Gombe State, Prof. Alhassan Ghali, said Atiku got 209,313 votes in the election. The APC candidate won in 19 of the 20 local governments in the state while the PDP won in only Bogoro LGA. The last result from Katagum LGA arrived at the collation centre at about 9.20 pm after a long wait. The Resident Electoral Commissioner, Ibrahim Abdullahi, thanked party agents and observers for their patience. However, the result will be officially declared in Abuja later today (Tuesday). Buhari floors Atiku in Lagos Buhari has also polled 580,825 votes to defeat his closest rival, Atiku of the PDP in Lagos State. According to Prof. Felix Salako, the Vice-Chancellor, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, who was the INEC state collation officer, Atiku scored 448,015 to come second at the end of the state final collation of the Presidential election results from the 20 LGAs of the state. Salako, who collated the results of the 20 LGAs, said the state had 6,313,507 registered voters out of which 1, 196, 490 were accredited for voting. The LGA collation officers properly presented the results one after the other as they arrived at the collation centre before they were accepted by Salako. According to him, the valid votes are 1,089,567, total rejected votes (67,023) while votes cast stand at 1,157, 590 in the presidential election. Reeling out the results of each political parties, he said Accord polled 5, 948 votes, AAC, 8, 910; ADC, 2915; ADP, 1,262; and ANN polled 6,946. The professor added that APA had 1,495 votes, DPP polled 1,372 votes, PCP got 8,458, and SNC scored 1766. The other political parties that participated in the poll had less than 1000 votes each. According to him, Form 6OE will be pasted at the collation centre after duly signed by the party agents. Party agents took turns to sign the collated results for onward transmission to Abuja for the final collation. Atiku wins Plateau with 548, 665 votes Meanwhile, Atiku has won Saturday’s presidential election in Plateau State after scoring 548,665 votes. Atiku defeated his closest opponent, Buhari, of the APC, who scored 468, 555 votes. Prof. Richard Kimbir, the Collation Officer for the election in the state, declared the results on Monday in Jos. Kambir, who is the Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, said Atiku won in 11 local government areas to defeat Buhari who won in six LGAs. Atiku thrashes Buhari in Enugu However, Atiku was announced as the winner of Saturday’s presidential election in Enugu State. The result was announced at the National Collation Centre, Abuja, by Prof. Joseph Ehaneku, the Vice-Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, who is the Collation Officer for the election in the state. Ehaneku announced that Atiku polled 355,553 votes to defeat Buhari, who scored 54,423 votes. He said that total registered voters in Abia were 1,935,168 but that 452,765 were accredited, while total votes cast in the polls were 451,014 with 30,049 rejected. Buhari records landslide victory in Yobe But Buhari was declared winner of the election in Yobe State. Prof. Abubakar Musa, the State Returning Officer and Vice-Chancellor, Federal University Wukari , Taraba State, announcing the result, said Buhari scored 497,914 votes in the state. Musa said that Atiku scored 50,763 votes from the 559.365 valid votes cast in the state. He said that the state had 1,365,913 registered voters, 601,059 accredited voters for the election, 586,137 total votes cast and 26,772 rejected votes. INEC declares Buhari winner in Jigawa Buhari has also been declared winner in Jigawa State. Prof. Abdullahi Zuru, Vice-Chancellor of Usman Danfodio University Sokoto, who is the State Collation Officer for the election, announced the result in Dutse on Monday. He said that Buhari, who sought for re -election on the platform of the APC scored 794,738 to defeat his closest rival, Atiku who got 289,895 votes. Zuru explained that a total of 1,106,244 votes were valid, 43,678 rejected and 1,149,922, the total number of votes cast during the exercise. INEC declares Buhari winner in Kaduna Buhari has won in Kaduna State with 993,482 votes. Prof. Bello Shehu, the Returning Officer announced the result on Monday in Kaduna. Shehu said Atiku scored 613,318 votes in the poll.<doc-sep>The Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday announced President Muhamadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of Saturday’s presidential election in Kaduna State. The result was announced at the National Collation Centre Abuja, by Prof. Bello Shehu, Vice Chancellor, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, who is the Collation Officer for the election in the state. Shehu announced that Buhari polled 993,445 votes to defeat Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s Atiku Abubakar, who scored 649,612 votes. Donald Duke of Social Democratic Party was third with 1,737 votes. According to him, Obadiah Mailafia of African Democratic Congress scored 558 votes, Omoyele Sowore of African Action Congress polled 243 votes, while Mr Yabagi Yusuf of African Democratic Party had 227 votes. He said that total registered voters in Kaduna were 3,861,033 but only 1,757,868 were accredited, while total votes cast in the polls was 1,709,005 with 45,402 rejected. Shehu noted that votes from 85 wards with a total of 282 polling units were cancelled for various reasons which affected 189,865 voters across the 23 local government areas in the state. (NAN)<doc-sep>
Story highlights Stears group launches comprehensive database for real-time election results Dataset will allow analysis of political trends, and potentially reveal irregularities (CNN) — After the polls closed for Nigeria’s delayed general election Saturday, the Stears situation room in Lagos kicked into overdrive. Saturday night was showtime for the business analysis firm and its brand-new toy: The Stears Election Centre website. Saturday’s ballot was beset by technical glitches, frustrating delays for voters and election-related violence. After the last ballots were cast, the vote in Africa’s largest democracy appeared too close to call. Results are expected to start being announced this week. The Stears Election Centre site will provide a one-stop shop for election night news, covering every race for the House, Senate, governorship, and the presidency, with real-time updates as results are announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Each result will be indexed in a searchable database. Candidates for Congress and Senate need only win a simple majority in their constituencies to earn a four-year term. The battle for the presidency is more complex, as candidates must win a majority as well as at least 25 per cent of the vote in 24 of Nigeria’s 36 states. If no candidate fulfills this requirement, the two leading candidates will contest a run-off. Stears partner and economist Michael Famoroti says that although the group’s concept is not new, pointing to election result-tracker sites in the US such as fivethirtyeight.com, it will be the first and only such service in Nigeria. “We have been scratching our heads as to why no one else has done it,” he told CNN. “I can tell people confidently that this going to be the only place where you can get comprehensive 2019 election results all in one place.” Drilling down The primary function of the center is to serve as a timely source of reliable information. As Famoroti puts it, this is “a public data project with the very simple goal of making accurate election results as widely available as possible to everybody.” stears The Stears group co-founders, left to right: Abdul Abdulrahim, Preston Ideh, Michael Famoroti, and Olabode Ogunlana. But the dataset will also allow for deeper analysis of the trends and patterns shaping Nigerian politics. Stears’ analysis of the 2015 general election highlighted the impact of popular governors in affecting the vote for president in their state. stears Graphic showing breakdown of 2015 election results. This time around, Famoroti is looking hard at the performance of third-party candidates, studying what regions they perform best in, and if factors such as ethnicity and gender play a role in determining the outcome. Analysis of the data might also enable the detection of irregularities and potential malpractice, but this would depend on securing ultra-localized data. Famoroti says that Nigeria’s electoral commission (INEC) has not yet released data that is granular enough to check. “The further down you go from federal government to state government to national assembly and local government, there is a lot less transparency at lower levels and that’s where you might see issues,” says Famoroti. “If INEC release data on vote breakdowns by ward and polling unit, we are more likely to spot trends by comparing the size of polling units to registered voters.” “The more granular data they give us the more capacity we have to check the integrity of the data.” Data culture The Stears group, founded by Nigerian economists, lawyers, and engineers trained at the London School of Economics, began life as an online publication for business analysis. The group is now aiming to become Nigeria’s go-to source for comprehensive election data. The more data they can acquire, the more sophisticated the analysis can be. The next steps could include predictive modeling tools. Beyond elections, the group is also building up a database for corporate and financial data. The big picture, says Famoroti, is “building a data culture,” in the country which will extend from helping businesses to understand their customer base to helping consumers make informed decisions. But the bigger picture can wait, with all eyes on Saturday night. Result-tracker sites such as fivethirtyeight.com receive millions of visitors during elections. Famoroti is confident his operation can handle such pressure – and he is hoping it will be put to the test.