APC vs PDP: Summary of how President Buhari defeated Atiku [see details]

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Final collation: President Buhari floors Atiku Abubakar in Lagos

President Muhammadu Buhari is set to be re-elected to lead Africa’s most populous country for an additional four years.

At the end of collation on Tuesday night, President Buhari crossed the 15 million mark in votes scored in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.

He polled 15,191,847 votes, winning in 19 out of the 36 states.

His main challenger, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, scored 11, 255,978 votes and won 17 states and Abuja.

Buhari also satisfied the constitutional requirement of making 25 per cent in 34 states and the FCT.

He missed the cut in Enugu and Anambra.

According to the electoral commission, 29,364,209 votes were cast, out of which 27,324,583 were valid while 1,289,607 votes were rejected.

In summary, this is how Nigerians voted:

Final result table

STATEAPCPDP
ABIA85,058219,698
ADAMAWA378,078410,266
AKWA IBOM175,429395,832
ANAMBRA33,298524,738
BAUCHI798,428209,313
BAYELSA118,821197,933
BENUE347,668356,817
BORNO836,49671,788
CROSS RIVER117,302295,737
DELTA221,292594,068
EBONYI90,726258,573
EDO267,842275,691
EKITI219,231154,032
ENUGU54,423355,553
FCT152,224259,997
GOMBE402,961138,484
IMO140,463334,923
JIGAWA794,738289,895
KADUNA993,445649,612
KANO1,464,768391,593
KATSINA1,232,133308,056
KEBBI581,552154,282
KOGI285,894218,207
KWARA308,984138,184
LAGOS580,825448,015
NASARAWA289,903283,847
NIGER612,371218,052
OGUN281,762194,655
ONDO241,769275,901
OSUN347,634337,377
OYO365,229366,690
PLATEAU468,555548,665
RIVERS150,710473971
SOKOTO490,333361,604
TARABA324,906374,743
YOBE497,91450,763
ZAMFARA438,682125,423
TOTAL15,191,84711,262,978