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Buhari leads Atiku in Lagos, Osun, Ogun, Ekiti Buhari has won the presidential election in key Southwest States. President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) may just have done enough to win four Southwest States, as results continue to trickle in from the general elections conducted on Saturday, February 23, 2019. Pulse  can confirm that Buhari defeated  Atiku Abubakar  of the  People’s Democratic Party (PDP)  in Ekiti, Lagos, Osun and Ogun—even if by the slimmest of chances . Official data just arriving relays that Buhari polled 347, 674 votes in Osun while Atiku polled 337, 377 votes.  Buhari scored 219, 231 votes in Ekiti to beat Atiku who polled 154,032 votes.  In Lagos, unconfirmed polling result handed Buhari 1,213,492 votes to Atiku’s 1,087,307. It is unclear who is winning the presidential ballot in Oyo and Ondo at the time of filing this report, even though  Pulse  has been told that while Oyo r...

LIVE: Results Collation From Nigeria's Presidential And National Assembly Election Results so far as announced at polling units and wards in states where presidential and national assembly elections held across the country. Damaturu APC 35,772 PDP  2, 090 Gaidam APC 16,338  PDP  613  Nguru APC 36,433 PDP 5,352 Bade APC 42,485.  PDP  3,295 Yunusari APC 23,837 PDP   939 Karasuwa APC 22,377 PDP  3,692 Yusufari APC 22,157  PDP 3,567. Potiskum APC 62,101 PDP  4,331 Fune LGA APC 43,948  PDP  5,707 Jakusko APC 34,424 PDP 3,390 Bursari APC   22,253 PDP     2,555 Gulani APC 22,585 PDP  2,612  Fika APC 42,488 PDP   5,522 Machina APC 14,619 PDP  2,315 Tarmuwa APC 12...

Saraki loses Kwara Central senatorial seat to APC opponent, Oloriegbe Senate President, Bukola Saraki, will not return to the upper chamber of the National Assembly after losing his re-election bid to the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ibrahim Oloriegbe. The candidate of the  Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)  lost to his APC opponent in all four local councils in the senatorial district with the final result standing at 123,808 votes to his own 68,994. According to the results announced by INEC, Oloriegbe beat Saraki with 15,932 votes to 11,252 in Asa; 30,014 votes to 14,654 in Ilorin East; 26,331 votes to 13,013 in Ilorin South; and 51,531 votes to 30,075 in Ilorin West. Saraki served as Kwara State governor for two terms between 2003 and 2011 when he was first elected to the Senate before he was elected Senate President after winning re-election in 2015.