Breaking: INEC Declares Tinubu Winner Of Presidential Election
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has announced Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 Presidential Election held on Saturday the 25th of February.
The Chairman of INEC Professor Mahmood Yakubu stated “That Tinubu Bola Ahmed of the APC, having satisfied the requirement of the law, is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,”
Mahmood said a Certificate of Return for the President and Vice President elect will be presented by 3 p.m. on Wednesday at the National Collation Centre.
Tinubu, the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat his closest rival Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party who polled 6,984,520 votes.
The other close contestants in the election were the candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi who polled 6,101,533 votes and the candidate of New Nigeria’s Political Party Rabiu Kwankwaso who polled 1,496,687 votes.
18 political parties participated in the keenly contested election which had the total number of registered voters in the country as 93,469,008, accredited voters as 25,286,616, valid votes as 24,025,940 and rejected votes as 939,278.
Votes scored by each political parties and their Presidential Candidates as follows:
Accord (A), Prof. Christopher Imumulen- 61,014
Action Alliance (AA) Almustapha Hamza-14,542
African Action Congress (AAC) Omoyele Sowore-14,608
African Democratic Congress (ADC) Dumebi Kachikwu-81,919
Action Democratic Party (ADP) Sani Yabagi -43,924
All Progressives Congress (APC) Sen. Bola Tinubu-8,794,726
All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Prof. Peter Umeadi -61,966
Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Princess ChiChi Ojei-25,961
Action Peoples Party (APP) Nnadi Charles Osita-12,839
Boot Party (BP), Adenuga Oluwafemi-16,156
Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi -6,101,533
New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso-1,496,687
National Rescue Movement (NRM) Osakwe Felix Johnson -24,869
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) , Atiku Abubakar-6,984,520
Peoples Redemption Party ( PRP), Kola Abiola-72,144
Social Democratic Party (SDP) Prince Adewole Adebayo-80,2067
Young Progressive Party (YPP) Prince Abdulmalik Ado-Ibrahim-60,600
Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) Nwanyanwu Daberechukwu-77,665
