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1999 Nigerian presidential election

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1999 Nigerian presidential election
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27 February 1999
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Registered57,938,945
Turnout52.26%
 
Nominee Olusegun Obasanjo Olu Falae
Party PDP AD–APP
Running mate Atiku Abubakar Umaru Shinkafi
States carried 27 + FCT 9
Popular vote 18,738,154 11,110,287
Percentage 62.78% 37.22%
Results by state
President before election

Abdulsalami Abubakar
Independent

Elected President

Olusegun Obasanjo
PDP

Presidential elections were held in Nigeria on 27 February 1999. They were the first elections to be held since the 1993 military coup and were the first elections of the Fourth Nigerian Republic. A former military head of state from 1976 to 1979, Olusegun Obasanjo, was elected president. Supported by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), he defeated Olu Falae who was backed by the Alliance for Democracy (AD) and All People's Party (APP). In 2025, Falae spoke up and claimed that "I won that election" instead of Obasanjo. He also claimed that his campaign didn't go to court as they were more concerned about the return to democracy after years of military rule.[1]

Until 2023, this was the last election to not feature Muhammadu Buhari.

Results

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Voting during the 1999 presidential election in Nigeria
CandidatePartyVotes%
Olusegun ObasanjoPeople's Democratic Party18,738,15462.78
Olu FalaeAD–APP11,110,28737.22
Total29,848,441100.00
Valid votes29,848,44198.57
Invalid/blank votes431,6111.43
Total votes30,280,052100.00
Registered voters/turnout57,938,94552.26
Source: African Elections Database

By state

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State Obasanjo Falae Total
Votes % Votes %
Abia 360,823 67.33 175,095 32.67 535,918
Adamawa 667,239 78.95 177,868 21.05 845,107
Akwa Ibom 730,744 82.73 152,534 17.27 883,278
Anambra 633,717 76.06 199,461 23.94 833,178
Bauchi 834,308 70.91 342,233 29.09 1,176,541
Bayelsa 457,812 75.05 152,220 24.95 610,032
Benue 983,912 78.53 269,045 21.47 1,252,957
Borno 581,382 63.47 334,593 36.53 915,975
Cross River 592,688 67.65 283,468 32.35 876,156
Delta 576,230 70.57 240,344 29.43 816,574
Ebonyi 250,987 72.56 94,934 27.44 345,921
Edo 516,581 75.99 163,203 24.01 679,784
Ekiti 191,618 26.85 522,072 73.15 713,690
Enugu 640,418 76.64 195,168 23.36 835,586
FCT 59,234 59.82 39,788 40.18 99,022
Gombe 533,158 63.13 311,381 36.87 844,539
Imo 421,767 57.30 314,339 42.70 736,106
Jigawa 311,571 56.79 237,025 43.21 548,596
Kaduna 1,294,679 77.25 381,350 22.75 1,676,029
Kano 682,255 75.41 222,458 24.59 904,713
Katsina 964,216 80.80 229,181 19.20 1,193,397
Kebbi 339,893 66.36 172,336 33.64 512,229
Kogi 507,903 51.58 476,807 48.42 984,710
Kwara 470,510 71.33 189,088 28.67 659,598
Lagos 209,012 11.93 1,542,969 88.07 1,751,981
Nasarawa 423,731 70.98 173,277 29.02 597,008
Niger 730,665 83.88 140,465 16.12 871,130
Ogun 143,564 30.17 332,340 69.83 475,904
Ondo 133,323 16.63 668,474 83.37 801,797
Osun 187,011 23.53 607,628 76.47 794,639
Oyo 227,668 24.71 693,510 75.29 921,178
Plateau 499,072 74.22 173,370 25.78 672,442
Rivers 1,352,275 86.37 213,328 13.63 1,565,603
Sokoto 155,598 43.90 198,829 56.10 354,427
Taraba 789,749 90.67 81,290 9.33 871,039
Yobe 146,517 47.02 165,061 52.98 311,578
Zamfara 136,324 35.87 243,755 64.13 380,079
Total 18,738,154 62.78 11,110,287 37.22 29,848,441
Source: Observing the 1998–99 Nigeria Elections (p. 54)

References

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  1. ^ Ajia, Jide (13 June 2025). "I won 1999 presidential election, not Obasanjo – Olu Falae". The Punch. Retrieved 11 October 2025. 'We made sacrifices for democracy to return. I accepted it in good faith then, but the truth must be told: I won that election,' Falae told his interviewers.
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