See who won the popular vote for Y!/YNaija.com Person of the Year 2015 | Overall winner to be announced on December 31

And we have a winner – at least for the popular vote!

The Y!/YNaija.com voting for Person of the Year 2015 began in late November, and the overall winner will be unveiled to the public by the editors on December 31.

Before that, we have tallied the popular votes – and the winner by a far margin on the poll on this site is… Goodluck Jonathan, former President of Nigeria.

It appears Nigerians have a soft spot for the president-turned statesman who polled 26% of the votes to his nearest competitor, former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Attahiru Jega, who got 14% of the votes.

Full breakdown of the votes by percentage are below:

Goodluck Jonathan – Public Service (26%, 561 Votes)
Attahiru Jega – Public Service (22%, 463 Votes)
Bola Ahmed Tinubu – Politics (14%, 301 Votes)
Josephine Ugwu – Citizens (13%, 272 Votes)
Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi – Politics (9%, 188 Votes)
David Oyedepo – Education (8%, 175 Votes)
Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan – Politics (5%, 98 Votes)
Ibukun Awosika – Business (2%, 35 Votes)
Simdul Shagaya – Technology (1%, 23 Votes)
Bunmi Akinyemiju and Kunmi Demuren – Business (1%, 18 Votes)

Well done to all the readers who voted, and all the campaigners on social media across Facebook and Twitter.

The Y!/YNaija.com Person of the Year is in its fifth year and is awarded this year to the individual who has most visibly influenced the Nigerian society for good in the past year, breaking new boundaries or consolidating on gains – and driving the advancement of the public, especially young people.

The editors announced there was no winner for its first edition in 2011. The 2012 winner was entrepreneur and Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, while Jason Njoku of iRoko, was the 2013 winner.

In 2014, former minister of education, Obiageli Ezekwesili, was named winner of the YNaija Person of the Year.

The highly anticipated overall winner, which will be announced after assessment by the editors of Y!/YNaija.com will be made on Thursday, December 31.

The popular vote will be taken into consideration but that’s not the deciding factor.

We will start publishing the profiles of nominees from 10am today, until we announce the eventual winner at noon on the last day of 2015.

We begin counting down!

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