Third national convention held at the Teslim Balogun
Stadium, Lagos State, with a former Head of State,
Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), elected as
presidential candidate of the opposition party.
Buhari, who at the time of publishing this report, is
giving his acceptance speech, defeated four other
aspirants to clinch the presidential ticket by polling
3,430 votes.
Kano State Governor, Engr. Musa Rabi’u Kwankwaso
surprisingly emerged first runner up with 974 votes
while a former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,
was the second runner up with 954 votes.
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State came fourth
with 624 votes while the Publisher of Leadership
Newspapers, Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, came a distant fifth
with only 10 votes.
Sixteen votes were considered invalid and were
therefore voided.
A total of 7,214 delegates were accredited to vote at
the convention attended by the leaders of the
opposition party.
With his victory, Mr. Buhari, 72, who was Nigeria’s
military leader between December 31, 1983 and
August 27, 1985 will now square up against President
Goodluck Jonathan, whose adoption was ratified by
the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at its special
convention in the early hours of Thursday, in the
February 14 presidential election.
It would also be the fourth time the former military
ruler will be running for the highest office in the land.
He lost in all three previous electoral contests amid
allegations of rigging by the ruling PDP.
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