NIGERIA: INEC Declares Tinubu President-Elect
NIGERIA: INEC Declares Tinubu President-Elect.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential Standardbearer, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has been declared winner of last Saturday, February 25’s presidential polls.
Announcing the results in Abuja around 4:11am on Wednesday morning, the Chief Returning Officer for the presidential election, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, said Tinubu polled a total of 8,794,726 votes to defeat Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 6,984,520 votes.
Yakubu said Peter Obi of Labour Party garnered 6,101,533 votes while Rabiu Kwankwaso of New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) had 1,493,066 votes.
The total accredited voters for the election were 25, 286,616 and 25, 25,940 votes were valid. Also, the total rejected votes were 939,278 while total number of votes cast were 24, 965,218.
According to the breakdown of the results, Tinubu won in 12 states, Atiku also won in 12 states while Obi won in 11 states and the Federal Capital Territory. Kwankwaso won only in Kano State.
As stated by constitution, Asiwaju Tinubu will be sworn-in on May 29, as President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor in tittle.
