Nigeria: Buhari Shocks Jonathan in Aso Rock

Unofficial results from Saturday's polls showed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) may have taken an early lead in the race for the Senate and House of Representatives at two of the polling units at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Result announced to voters by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)'s presiding officer at the polling unit showed that for the House of Representatives, the APC scored 255 votes, while the Peoples Democratic Party polled 254 at Unit 021.

At polling unit 022, the APC polled 334 while PDP got 241 votes.

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) polled 45 votes while the Labour Party (LP) got 11 votes.

The results for the Senate from Unit 022, APC polled 337 while the PDP got 281 votes.

The PDP however nicked the Senate for Unit 021 polling 286 votes while the PDP got 260 votes.

It was the same scenario for the presidential election at the two units as the APC came out tops, polling a total of 613 votes while the PDP got 595 votes.

A breakdown of the result shows that in unit 021, PDP polled 293 to APC's 265 while for unit 022, PDP polled 302, while APC got 348.

Meanwhile in Lagos state, early results trickling in indicate that the APC Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), is winning Lagos by wide margin.

Results collated in different polling units revealed that Buhari defeated Jonathan in the ward of Senator Musiliu Obanikoro and the PDP governorship candidate, Jimi Agbaje.

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