Just before midnight on Tuesday night had all the 36 states and the capital Abuja reported their votes gives the incumbent president, Muhammadu Buhari, a victory by a wide margin – albeit with a very weak basis. Of the 72 million voters who filled out their voting cards selected by only around 27 million, more than a third, to go to the polls after the election is delayed by a week.
Buhari receives over 15 million votes against the Abubakars 11 million.
the Constitution requires that a candidate not only gets a majority of votes, but it also gathers support from at least 25 per cent of the voters in two-thirds of the country’s 36 states and the capital Abuja. The choice has been uniformly in the several states and Buhari did not have any problems to live up to the constitutional requirements.
the Election was held on the Saturday after a week’s delay. Muhammadu Buhari, 76, wrote history when he four years ago in a democratic way made a comeback as head of state in the country for two years in the early 1980s ruled by a military junta. In the 2015 election put the incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan for re-election but lost and step to the side, something that has not happened before in the country’s history.
he during the past four years has been absent during the long periods when he stayed in London for the care of unknown ailments but the discontent can not be compared with the situation four years ago when Goodluck Jonathan petades of the voters. A contributing reason for Jonathan’s case was Boko Harams insurgency in the state of Borno, which is in principle taken over by the terrorsekten. Since then, the military has made great achievements in the fight against the sect and the state’s residents thanked Buhari for the efforts by giving him over 90 percent of their votes in this year’s election.
A weakness in the election results is the extremely low turnout that looks to land on a third of registered voters. A contributing reason for the low turnout is that the elections at the last moment was postponed a week because of the lack of preparation of the electoral body Inec.
