INEC declares Tinubu winner of 2023 presidential election
The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the candidate of All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, winner of the Saturday February 25 presidential election.
The chairman of INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, made the declaration by 4:20 am on Wednesday morning ) today).
While announcing the result at the National Collation Centre Yakubu said Tinubu polled a total of 8,794,726 votes to defeat his closest rival Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 6,984,520
votes.
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi trailed behind scoring 6,101,533 while Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigerian Peoples Party polled 1,496,687.
“That Tinubu Bola Ahmed of the APC having satisfied the requirements of the law is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected,” the INEC chairman stated.
Yakubu said the result is from a collated figure of votes from all the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory.
The trio of Tinubu, Obi, and Atiku won the elections in 12 states while Kwankwaso won one.
Tinubu won the elections 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.
Obi won in Edo, Cross River, Delta, Lagos, Federal Capital Territory, Plateau, Imo, Ebonyi, Nasarawa, Anambra, Abia and Enugu states.
Apart from scoring the constitutionally required majority votes, Tinubu also met the second requirement of 25 per cent of the votes in 25 states (two-thirds of Nigeria’s 36 states and Abuja)
Yakubu said Certificates of Return would be presented to the president-elect and Vice-President elect by 3pm today.
For CoR for Senators and house of representatives members-elect, Yakubu said a statement would be issued in due time.
