{"id":17273,"date":"2014-12-11T16:08:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T15:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/new\/?p=17273"},"modified":"2014-12-15T06:58:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T05:58:07","slug":"buhari-zooms-past-atiku-set-clinch-apc-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/buhari-zooms-past-atiku-set-clinch-apc-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari wins APC ticket with 3, 430 votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retired General Muhammadu Buhari has unofficially won the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential ticket with 3, 430 votes to beat his closest rival, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to a distant third position.<\/p>\n<p>Atiku, at the party&#8217;s 3rd National Convention currently holding in Lagos polled 954 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Kano State Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwakwanso defeated Atiku by 20 votes, scoring 974 votes while the publisher of a Leadership newspaper, Sam Ndah Isaiah polled 10 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State polled 624 while only 16 votes were recorded as void.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Us<\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_32x32_style addthis_default_style\"> <a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_follow\" addthis:userid=\"pages\/NewMailNG\/156576314503603\"><\/a> <a class=\"addthis_button_twitter_follow\" addthis:userid=\"NewMailNG\"><\/a> <\/div>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ra-5328a5e30a5c9646\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired General Muhammadu Buhari has unofficially won the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential ticket with 3, 430 votes to beat his closest rival, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to a distant third position. Atiku, at the party&#8217;s 3rd National Convention currently holding in Lagos polled 954 votes. Kano State Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwakwanso defeated Atiku [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16983,4],"tags":[4439,9725],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Buhari wins APC ticket with 3, 430 votes | New Mail Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has lost his bid to contest the 2015 Presidential election under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/buhari-zooms-past-atiku-set-clinch-apc-ticket\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" 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