AUDIO: What Jonathan told Buhari in historic concession phone call
The audio file of the historic conversation between President Goodluck Jonathan and President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, during which the former conceded defeat in Saturday’s presidential election, has been made public.
With presidential election results from all but one of Nigeria’s 36 states counted, and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari, clearly in unassailable lead, President Goodluck Jonathan had telephoned Mr. Buhari to concede defeat.
President Jonathan made the call a little past 5P.M. on Monday after it became clear his party lost the election.
At the time the call was made the Independent National Electoral Commission was yet to declare Mr. Buhari winner because it was still expecting results from Nigeria’s remote Borno State.
By the time the Borno vote was added to the tally, Mr. Buhari garnered 15,416,221 votes to Mr. Jonathan’s 12,853, 162 votes.
The historic concession telephone call defused tension across Nigeria and has thrown up Mr. Jonathan as a democracy hero. That conversation is believed to have saved Nigeria from descending into violence in the aftermath of the election.
Source: Premium Time
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