There’s life after election defeat

That of August 11, 1979 was worse. On August 15, 1979 the returning officer in the Presidential election, Chief Fredrick Louis Menkiti announced the results of the Presidential election. In the results, Alhaji Shehu Shagari (90) of the NPN scored 5,668,857 votes while Chief Obafemi Awolowo (1909-1987) of the UPN scored 4,916,951 votes, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904-1996) of the NPP scored 2,822,523, Alhaji Aminu Kano (1920-1983) 1,732,113 votes and Alhaji Ibrahim Waziri 1,686,489 votes.