SHOCKER: ‘13.5m Nigerians’ voted manually in 2015 presidential poll — and Buhari got most of those votes

December 8, 2018 1:20 pm

At least 13.5 million Nigerians voted manually — without biometric accreditation — in the 2015 presidential election, according to data from the Independent and National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The data, obtained by DeepDive Intelligence, shows that President Muhammadu Buhari, then candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), won in nine of the 10 most-affected states.

Notwithstanding, the non-use of PVCs during the poll cut across all the political parties.

The 2015 presidential election had two major contenders, Buhari and Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria’s first incumbent president to lose a re-election bid.

Of the 31,746,490 accredited voters in the election, 13,536,311 — representing 42.6 percent of voters — voted without biometric accreditation.

Out of this number, 10,184,720 votes are from states won by Buhari and 3,351,591 votes came from states won by Jonathan, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, representing 75 percent and 25 percent of accredited voters respectively.

Below is a table showing votes cast manually in the 2015 elections:

No	State	No of Accredited Voters	No of voters who voted without full biometric accreditation	Who won?
1	Abia	442,538	102,401	PDP
2	Adamawa	709,993	296,733	APC
3	Akwa Ibom	1,074,070	288,775	PDP
4	Anambra	774,430	89,982	PDP
5	Bauchi	1,094,069	627,048	APC
6	Bayelsa	384,789	143,296	PDP
7	Benue	754,634	347,673	APC
8	Borno	544,759	317,933	APC
9	Cross River	500,577	129,381	PDP
10	Delta	1,350,914	226,266	PDP
11	Ebonyi	425,301	213,543	PDP
12	Edo	599,166	237,958	PDP
13	Ekiti	323,739	165,000	PDP
14	Enugu	616,112	146,730	PDP
15	Gombe	515,828	237,139	APC
16	Imo	801,712	151,234	PDP
17	Jigawa	1,153,428	744,457	APC
18	Kaduna	1,746,031	800,112	APC
19	Kano	2,364,434	1,358,537	APC
20	Katsina	1,578,646	1,045,994	APC
21	Kebbi	792,817	496,565	APC
22	Kogi	476,839	162,763	APC
23	Kwara	489,360	302,904	APC
24	Lagos	1,678,754	341,151	APC
25	Nasarawa	562,959	360,596	PDP
26	Niger	933,607	492,870	APC
27	Ogun	594,975	239,050	APC
28	Ondo	618,040	263,453	APC
29	Osun	683,169	255,460	APC
30	Oyo	1,073,849	384,316	APC
31	Plateau	1,076,833	482,788	PDP
32	Rivers	1,643,409	158,844	PDP
33	Sokoto	988,899	588,730	APC
34	Taraba	638,578	389,696	PDP
35	Yobe	520,127	302,965	APC
36	Zamfara	875,049	578,866	APC
37	FCT	344,056	65,102	PDP
	Total	31,746,490	13,536,311