How did this happen? According to reports by
Punch and
Vanguard,
President Jonathan lost to Buhari in the election conducted inside Aso
Rock. At polling unit 22, PDP had 302 votes while APC had 348 votes,
while at polling unit 21 - PDP had 293 votes while APC had 265 votes.
Collation of results from both polling units gave the PDP a total vote
of 595 while
the APC had a total of 613 votes. The president won the
election at the two polling units in 2011.
Meanwhile, APC won
PDP 499 to 0 votes in Buhari’s polling unit in Sakin Yara “A”, Kofar
Baru 3 in Daura LGA of Katsina state. Out of 501 votes cast in the
presidential polls, APC got 499, PDP had no vote, while 3 votes were
voided.