The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has declared Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress as winner of the 2023 presidential elections held last Saturday, February 25..
INEC Chairman ,Professor Mahmood Yakubu made the announcement early Wednesday morning at the National Collation Centre in Abuja in the presence of journalists, party agents, observers, security agents and other stakeholders.
“That Tinubu Bola Ahmed of the APC, having satisfied the requirement of the law, is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” Professor Yakubu declared the result
Tinubu won in 12 of Nigeria’s 36 states, and secured significant numbers in several other states to claim the highest number of votes of 8,794,726, almost two million votes more than his closest rival — former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Abubakar, 76, who has now run for president six times, got 6,984,520 votes, while the candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi came third with 6,101,533.
Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, won the polls in 11 states, including the home state of the APC candidate — Lagos. He also came out tops in the nation’s capital Abuja. Abubakar, like Tinubu, was victorious in 12 states.
Former Kano State Governor and candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Rabiu Kwankwaso, came fourth, claiming victory in his state — Kano.
He secured 1,496,687 votes