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of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with 24,638,063 votes.

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of the

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(ANPP) won 6,605,299 votes,

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of the Action Congress (AC) won 2,637,848 votes and

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of the

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(PPA) won 608,803 votes.

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of the Democratic People's Party (DPP) came last with 289,324 votes.

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, founding chairman of the party, was a former minister in the military government of General

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, who criticized Useni's poor leadership which failed to win any seats in the Senate or

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in the April 2007 elections.

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