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1979 Nigerian presidential election

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1979 Nigerian presidential election

11 August 1979 1983 →
 
Nominee Shehu Shagari Obafemi Awolowo Nnamdi Azikiwe
Party NPN UPN NPP
Running mate Alex Ekwueme Philip Umeadi Ishaya Audu
States carried 9 5 3
Popular vote 5,688,857 4,916,551 2,822,523
Percentage 33.77% 29.18% 16.75%

States won by Shagari (in blue), Awolowo (in red), Azikiwe (in green), Kano (in orange) and Ibrahim (in yellow)

President before election

Olusegun Obasanjo

Elected President

Shehu Shagari
NPN

Presidential elections were held in Nigeria for the first time on 11 August 1979. The result was a victory for Shehu Shagari, whose National Party of Nigeria had won the parliamentary elections in July.[1]

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Results

CandidatePartyVotes%
Shehu ShagariNational Party of Nigeria5,688,85733.77
Obafemi AwolowoUnity Party of Nigeria4,916,55129.18
Nnamdi AzikiweNigerian People's Party2,822,52316.75
Aminu KanoPeople's Redemption Party1,732,11310.28
Waziri IbrahimGreat Nigeria People's Party1,686,48910.01
Total16,846,533100.00
Registered voters/turnout48,633,782
Source: Nohlen et al.[2]

By state

State Ibrahim % Awolowo % Shagari % Kano % Azikiwe %
Anambra 1.67 0.75 13.50 1.20 82.88
Bauchi 16.44 3.00 62.48 14.34 4.74
Bendel 1.20 53.20 36.20 0.70 8.60
Benue 7.97 2.57 76.38 1.35 11.77
Borno 54.04 3.35 34.71 6.52 1.35
Cross River 15.14 11.76 64.40 1.01 7.66
Gongola 34.09 21.67 35.52 4.34 4.35
Imo 3.00 0.64 8.80 0.59 84.69
Kaduna 14.00 7.00 43.00 31.00 5.00
Kano 1.54 1.23 19.94 76.41 0.91
Kwara 5.71 37.48 53.62 0.67 0.52
Lagos 0.48 82.30 7.18 0.47 9.57
Niger 16.60 3.67 74.88 3.77 1.11
Ogun 0.53 92.61 6.23 0.31 0.32
Ondo 0.26 94.50 4.19 0.18 0.86
Oyo 0.57 85.78 12.75 0.32 0.55
Plateau 6.82 5.29 34.72 3.98 49.70
Rivers 2.18 10.33 72.65 0.46 14.35
Sokoto 26.61 2.52 66.58 3.33 0.92
Source: Oyediran[3]

Aftermath

Under the 1979 constitution, in order to be elected president on the first ballot a candidate needed to receive both the most votes nationwide and at least 25% of the vote in two-thirds of the states. However, at the time of the election, Nigeria had nineteen states, two-thirds of which in exact figures is 12.66. A dispute thus ensued over whether Shehu Shagari had received the necessary threshold by winning 25% in twelve states and 20% in Kano State, which Shagari claimed was two-thirds of the required 25% threshold and represented the remaining 0.66 in the constitutional threshold. Obafemi Awolowo claimed that the threshold should be rounded up to thirteen states, which Shagari had not met. The Supreme Court of Nigeria ruled in favour of Shagari.[4]

References

  1. ^ Elections in Nigeria African Elections Database
  2. ^ Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p716
  3. ^ Oyediran, Oyeleye (1981). The Nigerian 1979 elections. Illupeju, Lagos: Macmillan Nigeria. ISBN 0333317858.
  4. ^ "Awolowo v. Shagari and Others". Journal of African Law. 23 (2): 175–182. 1979. JSTOR 745032.
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