Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has opened a wide lead in the African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential primaries as the party adjourned collation of results to 8 p.m. on Wednesday.
Results announced from 25 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) showed Atiku polling over a million votes ahead of other contenders.
A tally of the results announced from the 26 regions shows that Atiku has polled a total of 1,390,276 votes so far, far ahead of the former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, who has secured 248,455 votes and former banker Mohammed Hayatu-Ddeen, who has polled 156,075 votes.
Messrs Amaechi and Hayatu-Deen have, in separate statements, rejected the results even before the collation began on Tuesday. Both politicians alleged widespread irregularities in the primary elections held across the 36 states and the FCT on Monday.
However, the ADC continued with the announcement of the election results in Abuja on Tuesday. Some INEC officials were present on Tuesday to monitor the collation of the results.
