SAN FRANCISCO, February 26, (THEWILL) –Â President Muhammadu Buhari, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has scored 612,371 votes in Niger to win the presidential election in the state.
Anjela Mary, the State Collation Officer for the Presidential election, announced this at the INEC collation room on Monday.
Mrs Mary, who is the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University Lokoja, said Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scored 218,052 votes.
She said the total number of registered voters was 2,375,568 while the total number of accredited voters was 911,964
Mrs Mary added that the number of valid votes was 851,937 while 45,039 votes were rejected.
She also said the total number of votes cast was 896,976.
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