2007 Nigerian general election

2007 Nigerian general election
21 April 2007
Presidential election
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Nominee Umaru Yar'Adua Muhammadu Buhari Atiku Abubakar
Party PDP ANPP ACN
Running mate Goodluck Jonathan Edwin Ume-Ezeoke
Popular vote 24,638,063 6,605,299 2,637,848
Percentage 69.60% 18.66% 7.45%
President before election

Olusegun Obasanjo
PDP

Elected President

Umaru Yar'Adua
PDP

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General elections were held in Nigeria on 21 April 2007 to elect the President and National Assembly.[1][2][3] Governorship and State Assembly elections had been held on 14 April.

Umaru Yar'Adua of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) won the highly controversial presidential election, and was sworn in on 29 May.[4][5] Election observers from the European Union described the elections as "the worst they had ever seen anywhere in the world", with "rampant vote rigging, violence, theft of ballot boxes and intimidation.".[6]

  1. ^ Ola Awoniyi: "Nigeria sets date for elections" Archived 2012-09-13 at the Wayback Machine, Mail & Guardian. 29 August 2006.
  2. ^ "IPU PARLINE database: NIGERIA (Senate) ELECTIONS IN 2007". archive.ipu.org. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  3. ^ "Why I Presented Yar'Adua For Presidential Election Despite His Kidney Transplant – Obasanjo | Sahara Reporters". saharareporters.com. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  4. ^ "Nigerian Election Results Hotly Disputed". NPR.org. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  5. ^ "INCREDIBLE: INEC does NOT have full official results of 2007 presidential election". TheCable. 24 October 2018. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference CNN was invoked but never defined (see the help page).