Nigerians re-elect Buhari as President
to stop the INEC from completing this electoral process.
But the violence notwithstanding, Mr Buhari was able to win in 19 states, securing the statutorily required 25 percent of votes cast in 24 or more of the 36 states. He won in Kaduna, Jigawa, Niger, Yobe, Gombe, Kogi, Nasarawa, Kwara, Osun, Ekiti, Bauchi, Lagos, Ogun, Kano, Katsina, Borno, Sokoto, Kebbi, and Zamfara states.
But it will be another opportunity for the president to redeem his badly battered persona as a no-nonsense anti-corruption champion as well as position the economy on a sound fiscal footing. Several corruption trials against politically-exposed persons have stalled in courts across the country and Mr Buhari continued to be accused of shielding some of his inner circle who are allegedly corrupt from prosecution.
But at the end of voting, Mr Buhari won in all the states in the northeast and northwest with the exception of Adamawa and Taraba states.
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