The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has presented the ‘Certificate of Return’ to President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) following his re-election.
Buhari was declared the winner of the presidential election in the early hours of Wednesday after he polled a total of 15,191,847 votes to defeat his closest rival and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, who scored 11,262,978 votes.
Buhari was accompanied by his vice-president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo alongside many APC stalwarts and government officials.
INEC Chairman, Professor Yakubu Mahmood, presented the certificate to President Buhari in a brief ceremony at the International Conference Centre (ICC), Abuja.
