The
presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari
(retd.) defeated President Goodluck Jonathan in the elections conducted inside
the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
There
are two polling units-Unit 021 and 022-located side-by-side within the premises
of the seat of power.
Buhari
polled a total of 613 votes in the two polling units while Jonathan scored a
total of 595 votes.
At
Unit 021, Jonathan beat Buhari to second position with 293 votes while the APC
candidate scored 265 votes.
At
the second polling booth, Unit 022, Buhari emerged winner with 348 votes while
Jonathan polled 302.
For
the Senatorial election in Unit 021, PDP polled 286 votes to beat APC with 260.
In
Unit 022, APC polled 337 votes while PDP scored 281 votes.
For
the House of Representatives election in Unit 022, APC polled 334 to beat PDP
to distant second with 241 votes.
For
Unit 021 however, it was a close contest between APC that won with 255 votes
and PDP that polled 254.
A
total of 575 voters were accredited out of the 2,181 registered voters for Unit
021 while 770 voters were accredited out of the 2,278 voters registered for
Unit 022.
The
sorting and counting of the votes ran ended at 11.30pm, necessitating some
voters to illuminate the venue with the headlamps of their cars.