The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the results for the last Saturday's Presidential election. As stated by the commission, the All Progressive Congress (APC) polled a total of 15,424,921 to defeat the ruling party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who only got 12, 853,162 votes. Other parties and their results are below. Announcing the results, Chairman of the commission, Prof Attahiru Jega noted that there were a total of 31,746,490 accredited voters. As stated by him, the total number of votes cast on the Election day stood at 29,432,083, out of which 844,519 votes were rejected and another 28,587,564 voted considered valid. AA = 22,125, ACPN = 40,311 AD = 30,673 ADC = 29,666 APA = 53,537 CPP = 36,300 HOPE = 7,435 KOWA = 13,076 NCP = 24,455 PPM = 24,475 UDP = 9,208 UPP = 18,220
