Nigerian Newspapers: Top 10 Headlines Today Tuesday, 26th February, 2019

It has been a tight race so far between President Muhammadu Buhari of APC and Atiku Abubakar of PDP, with results from Kano, Kaduna, Rivers and Katsina expected to decide the outcome of the race.

President Muhammadu Buhari of All Progressives Congress (APC) recorded a massive victory in his home state of Katsina to brighten his chances of emerging winner of Nigeria’s 2019 presidential election. Buhari’s APC crushed Atiku Abubakar’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the race for Nigeria’s highest office by polling 1,232,133 votes.

Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, defeated President Muhammadu Buhari of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo state – the territory of the chairman of APC governors’ forum, Rochas Okorocha. Results were announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) returning officer in Imo, Prof. Benjamin Ozurumba, on Monday night.

8. Latest Election Result: Atiku Beats Buhari In Oshiomhole’s Edo

The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has rejected the results of the Saturday’s presidential election currently being collated by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Concise News reports that in a statement on Monday evening by its national spokesman, Imo Ugochinyere, the coalition described the exercise as  “pyrrhic victory and  the robbery of a nation.”

10. INEC Official ‘Forced’ To Declare Okorocha Winner

The returning officer for Imo West Senatorial District, I.I. Ibeabuchi has said that he was “forced” to declare Imo state governor Rochas Okorocha winner of the Imo West Senatorial election. Ibeabuchi said he stopped the collation after announcing nine out of the 12 local governments in the district, saying he had been directed to “return to Owerri, the state capital.”