If I decide to vote APC, I will vote APC.
Related: Nigerian laureate Wole Soyinka laments 'vicious, unprincipled' election He complained of irregularities, however, including alleged APC voters who were underage or brought in from neighbouring Chad and Niger.
He quarrelled with one after another; leading several of them to leave the party in frustration and join the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC).
The president called him to concede defeat, according to the APC.
Yet when four opposition parties merged last year to form the All Progressives Congress (APC), it offered Buhari, from Daura in Katsina state in the largely Muslim north, a second crack at Jonathan, who is from the predominantly Christian south.
A spokesman for Buhari's All Progressives Congress (APC) claimed victory for the 72-year-old.
The first official results declared on Monday gave Jonathan's People's Democratic party (PDP) victory over Buhari's All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti state.
Last year the All Progressives Congress (APC), the main opposition, complained that the army had rounded up its officials and supporters ahead of a vote to elect the governor of Ekiti, a key southern state.
A committee of kingmakers usually presents a list of candidates for the position, but Kano's state governor, a member of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) party, took the final decision.
For the moment neither President Goodluck Jonathan, who has been in office since 2010, nor his main opposition candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, fielded by the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), has a clear lead.
Public polls suggest it is tied with the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC).
