The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu, has been declared the winner of the Feb. 25 presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Tinubu, a former Governor of Lagos State, received 8,794,726 votes to defeat his main rivals, Atiku Abubakar of the People Democratic Party (PDP), who received 6,984,520 votes, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party, who received 6,101,533 votes out of the total 24,965,218 votes cast.
Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) finished in fourth place with 1,496,687 votes.
“That Tinubu Bola Ahmed of the APC has met the requirements of the law and received the most votes is hereby declared the winner and elected,” Yakubu said.
Yakubu also 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.
The media reports that INEC will present the Certificate of Return to Tinubu at 3 p.m.
Newsmen also report that the election result sheets were not signed by PDP, LP, NNPP, and other parties which had earlier on Monday staged a walkout of the national collation centre.
The opposition parties alleged that the process of the election had been compromised, demanding the election should be canceled and a fresh poll conducted.
They also demanded that INEC Chairman should step aside and allow another person to conduct the election.
According to Yakubu, the Certificate of Return for the president-elect and vice president-elect would be issued on Wednesday at 3 pm.
The commission would on Thursday state when the Certificate of Return for the senators-elect and House of Representatives members-elect would be issued.
