{"id":33384,"date":"2019-02-27T05:23:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T05:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33384"},"modified":"2019-02-27T05:23:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T05:23:25","slug":"buhari-reelected-as-nigerias-president-electoral-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33384","title":{"rendered":"Buhari reelected as Nigeria&#8217;s president: Electoral commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"85.889468196\">\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/nigeria.html\">Nigeria<\/a>&#8216;s electoral commission has declared incumbent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/muhammadu-buhari.html\">Muhammadu Buhari<\/a> the winner of the country&#8217;s presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The announcement in the early hours of Wednesday means the 76-year-old has won a second four-year term at the helm of Africa&#8217;s largest economy and most populous country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Buhari,\u00a0of the ruling All Progressives Congress party,\u00a0secured 15.1m votes in the February 23 polls,\u00a0<span>Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>His main opponent, former vice president Atiku Abubakar of the People&#8217;s Democratic Party (PDP), received 11.2, votes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Muhammadu Buhari &#8230; is hereby declared winner,&#8221; Yakubu said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Hours\u00a0<\/span><span>before the official result was announced, the PDP alleged electoral\u00a0<\/span><span>malpractices, including vote-rigging,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>in the polls, which were delayed by a week at the 11th hour.<\/p>\n<p>Voting was marked by hours-long delays and deadly violence that observers said kept some people away from the polls.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s electoral commission has declared incumbent Muhammadu Buhari the winner of the country&#8217;s presidential elections. The announcement in the early hours of Wednesday means the 76-year-old has won a second four-year term at the helm of Africa&#8217;s largest economy and most populous country. Buhari,\u00a0of the ruling All Progressives Congress party,\u00a0secured 15.1m votes in the February&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}