644 Muhammadu Buhari will be Nigeria’s next president. Mr Buhari won 15,424,683 votes to 12,853,162 for his opponent, President Goodluck Jonathan – a wide margin of roughly 54% to 45%. Mr Jonathan graciously called his victorious challenger on the telephone to concede and to congratulate him on the evening of Tuesday, March 31, when only the results from Borno State still had to be announced.