2007 Nigerian general election

2007 Nigerian general election
21 April 2007
Presidential election
 
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

General elections were held in Nigeria on 21 April 2007 to elect the President and National Assembly. 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. 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.".

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