Massive turnout nationwide as Buhari coasting home to victory in entire North, South West

•South South, South East go for Jonathan




The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari seems to have found favour with most of the voters in four of the nation’s six geo-political zones in yesterday’s election.




General Buhari, according to indications from across the country, got the nod of most voters in the Northwest, Northcentral, Northeast and Southwest, in what observers, local and foreign, described as the nation’s most crucial polls ever.



His performance matches substantially The Nation’s projections on the elections.




Nigerians defied all odds -erratic performance of the card readers, late arrival of electoral materials, rain, thuggery, manipulation  and terrorism mainly in the Northeast -to troop out possibly as never before   to vote for the next president, senators and members of the House of Representatives.




In Sokoto, Makurdi, Akure, Jos, Minna, Abeokuta, Abuja, Lagos, Benin, the story was the same of enthusiastic Nigerians determined to take their destiny in their hands.




General Buhari, accompanied by his wife, Aisha, voted in his Daura, Katsina home town after accreditation with the aid of the card reader which took no more than two minutes each.




But accreditation was a tough nut for President Goodluck Jonathan and the First Lady, Patience , at the president’s Otuoke hometown.




Four times they tried to use the card reader to verify their finger prints, four times they failed.


The President’s mother, Madam Eunice, passed the card reader’s test easily.


Jonathan’s   verification and his wife’s were eventually done manually, the same method adopted in other places where the card reader failed.