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General Buhari Wins Presidential Poll … Jonathan congratulate and concede defeat to Buhari

The All Progressive Congress, APC, Presidential candidate General Muhammadu Buhari has emerged winner of the 2015 presidential poll from results officially released by the Independent National Electoral Commission in Abuja, after what many observers believed to be most keenly contested presidential election in decades and a fourth attempt.Buhari-and-Jonathan
Gen. Buhari won in the two largest zones – North West and South West. Buhari also enjoyed wider popularity than his archrival President Goodluck Jonathan, candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), in the North East zone. The incumbent president clinched the South-South and the South-East.
It has been reported that President Goodluck Jonathan has called his major challenger and the winner of the 2015 presidential election, Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC to congratulate and concede defeat to him.
According to a source, the president spoke with Muhammadu Buhari on the phone and will address the country after rounding off his meeting with his cabinet.
Meanwhile, Jonathan is currently meeting with the leadership of the National Peace Committee for the 2015 general elections, led by a former military leader, Gen. Abdusalami Abdusalami (retd.).
Others at the meeting included the Primate of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh; Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, Cardinal John Onayeikan; and a former President of the    Nigerian Bar Association, Mrs. Priscilla Kuye
He also spoke with the National Leader of APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
PDP kicks..
Earlier in the morning the agent of the Peoples Democratic Party at the announcement of the presidential election in Abuja, Elder Godsday Orubebe, attempted to disrupt the collation of the results. However, he failed as the INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, calmly handled the situation making the former minister appear foolish in the eyes of the world.
Shouting on top of his voice, Orubebe, a former Minister of the Niger Delta Affairs, alleged that INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, had taken side with the All Progressives Congress.
At the venue of the results presentation on Tuesday, the PDP agent shouted, “You sent a committee to Rivers to probe what happened there. We submitted petitions to you about Kano, Jigawa, Katsina but you have not done anything about our complaints. You cannot continue with these results; we will not take it.”
As Jega tried to calm him down asking to be given a chance to respond, Orubebe shouted, “Mr. Jega, You cannot continue, goes to your office.”

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