According to INEC, the 72-year-old main opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari, from the All Progressives Congress (APC), won 15,424,921 votes or 53.95 % of the 28,587,564 total valid votes cast. He won Nigeria's presidential election by 2.57 million votes.
His closest rival, President Goodluck Jonathan, 57, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), won 12,853,162 (44.96%) at the election which was held on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th of March 2015.
