BREAKING: INEC declares APC’s Tinubu winner of 2023 Presidential Election

Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has declared the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, as the winner and president-elect of Saturday presidential election in Nigeria.

INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, who announced the final results in the early hours of Wednesday in Abuja, said declared that APC’s Tinubu came first by polling 8,794,726 votes, which is the highest of all the candidates, while Atiku Abubakar of the PDP came second in the election, polling a total of 6,984,520 votes.

Declaring Tinubu as the winner, the INEC boss said, “That Tinubu Bola Ahmed of the APC, having satisfied the requirements of the law is hereby declared the winner and returned elected.”

Peter Obi of the Labour Party came third in the election with a total of 6,101,533 votes, while Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP came fourth with 1,496,687 votes.

Tinubu defeated 17 other candidates who took part in the election and also scored over 25 per cent of the votes cast in 30 states, more than the 24 states required by the Constitution of the Federal republic of Nigeria.

Professor Yakubu said, a Certificate of Return for the President-elect and Vice President will be presented by 3 p.m. on Wednesday at the National Collation Centre.

DETAILS OF FINAL RESULT OF THE 2023 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AS PRESENTED BY THE INEC CHAIRMAN AT THE COLLATION CENTRE ON WEDNESDAY 1ST MARCH, 2023

A 61,014
AA 14,542
AAC 14,608
ADC 81,919
ADP 43,924
APC 8,794,726 – 1st position
APGA 61,966
APM 25,961
APP 12,839
BP 16,156
LP 6,101,533 – 3rd position
NNPP 1,496,687 – 4th position
NRM 24,869
PDP 6,984,520 – 2nd position
PRP 72,144
SDP 80,267
YPP 60,600
ZLP 77,665

TOTAL REGISTERED VOTERS 93,469,008

ACCREDITED VOTERS 25,286,616

TOTAL VALID VOTES 24,025,940

TOTAL REJECTED VOTES: 939,278

TOTAL VOTE CAST 24,965,218

States won respectively:

Tinubu won the election in Rivers, Borno, Jigawa, Zamfara, Benue, Kogi, Kwara, Niger, Osun, Ekiti, Ondo, Oyo and Ogun states.

Atiku won in Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, Kaduna, Gombe, Yobe, Bauchi, Adamawa and Taraba states. He also won in Osun, Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa states.

Peter Obi won in Edo, Cross River, Delta, Lagos, FCT, Plateau, Imo, Ebonyi, Nasarawa, Anambra, Abia and Enugu states.

Kwankwaso won in only Kano State.

Aside from Tinubu; Obi; Atiku, and Kwankwaso, other candidates that gunned for the nation’s oval office include Dumebi Kachikwu of the African Democratic Congress; Kola Abiola, People’s Redemption Party; Omoyele Sowore, Africa Action Congress; Adewole Adebayo, Social Democratic Party; Malik Ado-Ibrahim, Young Progressive Party; Prof Christopher Imumulen, Accord Party; Prof Peter Umeadi, All Progressives Grand Alliance; and Yusuf Mamman Dan Talle, Allied Peoples Movement.

The list also includes Hamza Al-Mustapha, Action Alliance; Sani Yusuf, Action Democratic Party; Nnnadi Osita, Action Peoples Party; Oluwafemi Adenuga, Boot Party; Osakwe Felix Johnson, National Rescue Movement; and Nwanyanwu Daniel Daberechukwu, Zenith Labour Party.

Premier World News also reports that – the 2023 presidential election is the first that Tinubu contested for the nation’s top job. Tinubu, a former senator left office as a two-term governor of Lagos State in 2007 and credited with leading the coalition that ousted the PDP from power in 2015 and has extended his influence beyond the South-West region in recent years.