The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), winner of Feb. 25 presidential election.
INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, announced Tinubu as the winner, early Wednesday morning at the National Collation Centre in Abuja.
According to Yakubu, Tinubu, who was former Governor of Lagos State, garnered a total of 8,794,726 votes to defeat his major rivals; Atiku Abubakar of the People Democratic Party (PDP) who polled 6,984,520 votes , and Peter Obi of Labour Party who secured 6,101,533 votes of the 24,965,218 total vote cast.
Also Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso- of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) came distance fourth with 1,496,687 votes.
“That Tinubu Bola Ahmed of the APC having satisfied the requirements of the law and scoring the highest votes is hereby declared winner and elected,” Yakubu said.
He said that the Certificate of Return for the president-elect and vice president-elect would be issued on Wednesday at 3pm.
The commission would on Thursday issue a statement on when the Certificate of Return for the senators-elect and House of Representatives members -elect would be issued
The election result sheets was not signed by PDP, LP, NNPP, and other parties which had earlier on Monday staged a walk out of the national collation centre.
The leadership of the parties had on Tuesday alleged that the election process was compromised and demanded that the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) step aside.
They said that the February 25 presidential election was marred with violence, intimidation of voters and rigging.
The parties alleged that INEC officials manipulated Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections by their failure to upload results electronically on the commission’s Results Viewing Portal (IReV).
The parties demanded for fresh elections to be conducted.
Yakubu during his announcement listed the votes scored by other 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
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.
Ifunanya Ikueze is an Engineer, Safety Professional, Writer, Investor, Entrepreneur and Educator.
