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February 28, 2019
TheUnited `kingdom Government has confirmed that the results of the presidentialelection as released by the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC wereauthentic.
BritishMinister of State for Africa, Harriet Baldwin said the results were consistentwith the results obtained through the civil society Parallel Vote Tabulationprocess.
Baldwincongratulated President Muhammadu Buhari on securing a second term aspresident.
INECChairman, Mahmood Yakubu, early Wednesday morning, declared President MuhammaduBuhari as the winner of the 23rd February election, with over 15 million votes.His main challenger, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,scored over 11, million votes.
But the PDP agent at the collation centre declined to sign the results and later Atiku also rejected the verdict and said he would challenge it in the court.