2007 Presidential Election: How Nigerians voted

The highest candidates had been Umaru Musa Yar’Adua of the Folks’s Democratic Get together (PDP), Muhammadu Buhari of the All Nigeria Folks’s Get together (ANPP), who misplaced his second presidential election, and Atiku Abubakar of the Motion Congress (AC) who had simply completed an eight-year tenure as vice-president.

The election witnessed so many electoral malpractices that even President Olusegun Obasanjo and Yar’Adua, the winner, admitted it was flawed.

The chairman of the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) on the time, Maurice Iwu, took native and worldwide flak for the way he performed the election.

The whole variety of votes he introduced as the results of the election was completely different from the entire later revealed on the INEC web site, with a disparity of almost 28,000 votes.

61.6 million voters registered for the election and roughly 58% voted, however INEC did not present information for the voter turnout.

Extra bizarrely, the Iwu-led INEC by no means produced a state-by-state breakdown of the outcomes, the one presidential election with this distinction. The whole variety of votes received by Yar’Adua additionally stays the best ever scored by any candidate.

Here is how Nigerians reportedly voted for president in 2007.

Umaru Musa Yar’Adua (PDP) — 24,638,063 (69.60%)

Muhammadu Buhari (ANPP) — 6,605,299 (18.66%)

Atiku Abubakar (AC) — 2,637,848 (7.45%)

Orji Uzor Kalu (PPA) — 608,803 (1.72%)

Attahiru Bafarawa (DPP) — 289,224 (0.82%)

Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (APGA) — 155,947 (0.44%)

Pere Ajuwa (AD) — 89,241 (0.25%)

Christopher Okotie (FRESH) — 74,049 (0.21%)

Patrick Utomi (ADC) — 50,849 (0.14%)

Asakarawon Olapere (NPC) — 33,771 (0.10%)

Ambrose Owuru (HDP) — 28,519 (0.08%)

Arthur Nwankwo (PMP) — 24,164 (0.07%)

Emmanuel Okereke (ALP) — 22,677 (0.06%)

Lawrence Adedoyin (APS) — 22,409 (0.06%)

Aliyu Habu Fari (NDP) — 21,974 (0.06%)

Galtima Liman (NNPP) — 21,665 (0.06%)

Maxi Okwu (CPP) — 14,027 (0.04%)

Sunny Okogwu (RPN) — 13,566 (0.04%)

Iheanyichukwu Nnaji (BNPP) — 11,705 (0.03%)

Osagie Obayuwana (NCP) — 8,229 (0.02%)

Olapade Agoro (NAC) — 5,752 (0.02%)

Akpone Solomon (NMDP) — 5,664 (0.02%)

Isa Odidi (ND) — 5,408 (0.02%)

Aminu Abubakar (NUP) — 4,355 (0.01%)

Mojisola Adekunle Obasanjo (MMN) — 4,309 (0.01%)

Umaru Musa Yar’Adua (PDP) – 24,784,227 (69.96%)

Muhammadu Buhari (ANPP) – 6,607,419 (18.65%)

Atiku Abubakar (AC) – 2,567,798 (7.25%)

Orji Uzor Kalu (PPA) – 608,833 (1.72%)

Attahiru Bafarawa (DPP) – 289,324 (0.82%)

Chukwuemeka Odumegwu – Ojukwu (APGA) 155,947 (0.44%)

Pere Ajuwa (AD) – 89,511 (0.25%)

Chris Okotie (FRESH) – 74,049 (0.21%)

Asakarawon Olapere (NPC) – 33,771 (0.10%)

Ambrose Owuru (HDP) – 28,518 (0.08%)

Arthur Nwankwo (PMP) – 24,164 (0.07%)

Emmanuel Okereke (ALP) – 22,592 (0.06%)

Lawrence Adedoyin (APS) – 22,459 (0.06%)

Aliyu Habu Fari (NDP) – 21,974 (0.06%)

Galtima Liman (NNPP) – 21,665 (0.06%)

Maxi Okwu (CPP) – 14,027 (0.04%)

Sunny Okogwu (RPN) – 13,566 (0.04%)

Iheanyichukwu Godswill Nnaji (BNPP) – 11,705 (0.03%)

Osagie Obayuwana (NCP) – 8,229 (0.02%)

Olapade Agoro (NAC) – 5,692 (0.02%)

Akpone Solomon (NMDP) – 5,666 (0.02%)

Isa Odidi (ND) – 5,408 (0.02%)

Aminu Abubakar (NUP) – 4,355 (0.01%)

Mojisola Adekunle Obasanjo (MMN) – 4,309 (0.01%)

Be aware: ADC candidate, Pat Utomi, was fully lacking from the end result on the INEC web site.

AC – Motion Congress

AD – Alliance for Democracy

ADC – African Democratic Congress

ALP – African Liberation Get together

ANPP – All Nigeria Folks’s Get together

APGA – All Progressives’ Grand Alliance

APS – African Political System

BNPP – Higher Nigeria Progressive Get together

CPP – Residents Well-liked Get together

DPP – Democratic Folks’s Get together

FRESH – Recent Democratic Get together

HDP – Hope Democratic Get together

MMN – Plenty Motion of Nigeria

NAC – Nationwide Motion Council

NCP – Nationwide Conscience Get together

ND – New Democrats

NDP – Nationwide Democratic Get together

NMDP – Nationwide Majority Democratic Get together

NNPP – New Nigeria Peoples Get together

NPC – Nigeria Folks’s Congress

NUP – Nationwide Unity Get together

PDP – Folks’s Democratic Get together

PMP – Folks’s Mandate Get together

PPA – Progressive Folks’s Alliance

RPN – Republican Get together of Nigeria

*Information sourced from African Elections Database as a result of absence of verified information from INEC.