INEC Declares Bola Tinubu Winner Of 2023 Presidential Election

By  Olanrewaju Falayi

Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election.

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Tinubu won with the total votes of 8,794,726 to defeat his major rivals; Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) who polled 6,984,520 votes, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party secured who 6,101,533 votes of the 24,965,218 total vote cast.

Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) polled 1,496,687 votes.

The INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu said “that Tinubu is declared returned and elected having  satisfied the requirements”, he said. 

“That Tinubu Bola Ahmed of the APC has satisfied the requirements of the law and scoring the highest votes is hereby declared winner and elected,” Yakubu said.

The INEC Chief also announced the votes of the other candidates thus: Accord (A), Prof. Christopher Imumulen- 61,014; Action Alliance (AA) Almustapha Hamza-14,542; African Action Congress (AAC) Omoyele Sowore-14,608. 

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Others are African Democratic Congress (ADC) Dumebi Kachikwu-81,919; Action Democratic Party (ADP) Sani Yabagi -43,924; 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 and Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) Nwanyanwu Daberechukwu-77,665. 

He gave 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.

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