{"id":15636,"date":"2019-02-24T17:36:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T17:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=15636"},"modified":"2019-02-24T17:36:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T17:36:56","slug":"atiku-sweeps-abuja-polling-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=15636","title":{"rendered":"Atiku sweeps Abuja polling units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Results coming from many units in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) indicate that the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are in clear lead in the Presidential and National Assembly Elections.<br \/>\nOur correspondent who were stationed in some of the polling units in the metropolis, report that PDP\u2019s Atiku Abubakar defeated President Muhammadu Buhari of the APC in the FCT cities.<br \/>\nAt various polling units in Nyanya, Kugbo, Jikwoyi and environs, PDP won the APC with wide margins.<br \/>\nAt the Polling Unit 001, Orozo Primary school Atiku clinched 1,375 votes and APC 308 votes in the presidential elections:\u00a0at the polling unit 009A in Kugbo, PDP won the presidential election with 483 votes and APC 84.<br \/>\nAt the 006 polling unit also in Jikwoyi primary school, PDP led the presidential elections with 89 and APC 15, and at the 001 polling unit, PDP won with 159<br \/>\nand APC 6.<br \/>\nOur correspondent reports that in all the polling units mentioned, PDP also won the Senatorial and House of Assembly polls.<br \/>\nAt LEA Primary School in Gwarinpa, Presiding Officer, Auwal Kundi confirmed that for the presidential election, PDP having pulled 707 while APC had only 194.<br \/>\nPDP led the Presidential election in Gwarimpa Model School Polling unit 024 with total votes of 673, with APC having 272: At Gwarimpa Model Gate Polling Unit 013B, APC had 215 while PDP had 973 votes in the presidential election.<br \/>\nAt Efab Estate Lifecamp Unit 017\u00a0PDP won the Presidential poll clinching 833 votes while APC got 258 votes, according to the Presiding Officer, Mr Bede Nwankwo.<br \/>\nOur correspondent report that at Mpape Abuja, PDP swept all 15 polling points at\u00a0Mpape Central polling units 006 and 007 in all three elections: presidential, Senatorial and House of representatives.<br \/>\nAt the\u00a0Agricultural Centre in Karu village, FCT Polling Unit 003, PDP Presidential candidate clinched\u00a0769 votes while Buhari got\u00a0129 votes.<br \/>\nAt Pyakas, Lugbe, FCT, polling unit 007, PDP emerged victorious in all 8 voting points,\u00a0Mr Sadiqu Abdulrazak, the Presiding Officer for the unit confirmed.<br \/>\nHe said that for the presidential election, PDP candidate Atiku Abubakar scored 1,205 votes while President Muhammadu Buhari of APC got 173 votes.<br \/>\nAt polling units along the Airport Road in FCT, PDP swept all but one, NAN reports.<br \/>\nAt Pyakasa Unit, Atiku Abubakar of PDP scored 1,205 votes while the President Muhammadu Buhari of APC got 173 votes:\u00a0At Lugbe Market,\u00a0FCT, Polling Unit 010, Atiku scored 368 votes while Buhari got 135 votes.<br \/>\nThe Presiding Officer at Gidan Mangoro Chief Palace Ward 008 Lugbe, Mr Hilarry Seifegha, announced that the PDP presidential candidate polled 699 votes while that of APC got 334 votes.<br \/>\nAt the Polling Unit 008A, located at the King of Kings Academy, PDP\u2019s Atiku Abubakar 548 votes while the APC\u2019 Muhammadu Buhari got 164, while at Kuchingoro Polling Unit 020,\u00a0 PDP presidential candidate scored 704 votes while that of\u00a0 APC candidate got 319 votes.<br \/>\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari of the APC, however, led in Karamajiji Polling Unit 018 with 664 votes, leaving his PDP counterpart with 471 votes.<br \/>\nAt Area 2 section 2, Polling Unit 009 by AEPB, PDP Presidential candidate scored\u00a0310 while APC scored\u00a0218, at polling unit 005 park and garden,\u00a0APC got 131 while\u00a0PDP got 279 while at polling unit\u00a0006 National LIbrary,\u00a0APC got 198 while PDP got\u00a0571 votes.<br \/>\nIt was also vivtory for the PDP presidential candidate at the Kuruduma polling unit 014, with Atiku Abubabkar polling\u00a0807 while President Muhammadu Buhari scored\u00a0189.<br \/>\nOur Correspondent report that PDP\u2019s Senatorial and House of Representatives Candidate also won in the polling UNits were PDP won the presidential poll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results coming from many units in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) indicate that the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are in clear lead in the Presidential and National Assembly Elections. Our correspondent who were stationed in some of the polling units in the metropolis, report that PDP\u2019s Atiku Abubakar defeated President Muhammadu Buhari [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}