1979 Nigerian presidential election

none June 2026 June 2020 Nigeria presidential 1983 Nigerian presidential election 1983 11 August 1979 130x130px President Sharari cropped.jpg Shehu Shagari National Party of Nigeria Alex Ekwueme 5,688,857 9 33.77% Obafemi_Awolowo_Drawing_(cropped).jpg Obafemi Awolowo Unity Party of Nigeria Philip Umeadi 5 4,916,551 29.18% Nnamdi Azikiwe PC (cropped).jpg Nnamdi Azikiwe Nigerian People's Party Ishaya Audu 3 2,822,523 16.75% Map of the 1979 Nigerian presidential election.svg States won by Shagari (in blue), Awolowo (in red), Azikiwe (in green), Kano (in orange) and Ibrahim (in yellow) President Olusegun Obasanjo Shehu Shagari National Party of Nigeria 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.Elections in Nigeria https://web.archive.org/web/20111108050849/http://africanelections.tripod.com/ng.html 8 November 2011 African Elections Database Results Shehu Shagari National Party of Nigeria 5688857 Obafemi Awolowo Unity Party of Nigeria 4916551 Nnamdi Azikiwe Nigerian People's Party 2822523 Aminu Kano People's Redemption Party 1732113 Waziri Ibrahim Great Nigeria People's Party 1686489 48633782 Nohlen et al.Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p716 By state StateIbrahim %Awolowo %Shagari %Kano %Azikiwe %Anambra1.670.7513.501.2082.88Bauchi16.443.0062.4814.344.74Bendel1.2053.2036.200.708.60Benue7.972.5776.381.3511.77Borno54.043.3534.716.521.35Cross River15.1411.7664.401.017.66Gongola34.0921.6735.524.344.35Imo3.000.648.800.5984.69Kaduna14.007.0043.0031.005.00Kano1.541.2319.9476.410.91Kwara5.7137.4853.620.670.52Lagos0.4882.307.180.479.57Niger16.603.6774.883.771.11Ogun0.5392.616.230.310.32Ondo0.2694.504.190.180.86Oyo0.5785.7812.750.320.55Plateau6.825.2934.723.9849.70Rivers2.1810.3372.650.4614.35Sokoto26.612.5266.583.330.92Source: OyediranOyediran Oyeleye The Nigerian 1979 elections https://archive.org/details/nigerian1979elec00oyed registration 1981 Macmillan Nigeria Illupeju, Lagos 0333317858 Aftermath Awolowo v Shagari case 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.Awolowo v. Shagari and Others Journal of African Law 1979 23 2 175–182 745032 References Nigeria Category:1979 elections in Nigeria Category:Presidential elections in Nigeria Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results