JUST-IN: INEC Declare Bola Tinubu As Winner Of 2023 Presidential Election
JUST-IN: INEC Declare Bola Tinubu As Winner Of 2023 Presidential Election Two term governor of Lagos state, Bola Tinubu has been declared the winner of the keenly contested presidential election held across Nigeria on Saturday, 25th February, 2023. Declaring the winner at about ten minutes past four o’clock Wednesday morning , chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mamood Yakubu said Asiwaju Tinubu and his party, The All Progressives Congress, APC won the election with a total votes of 8,794,726 (eight million, seven hundred and ninety four, seven hundred and twenty six) to defeat his closest rival, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP who polled 6,984,520 votes while Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party garnered 6,101,553. Professor Yakubu who is the nation’s chief electoral officer gave the number of total votes cast to stand at 24,965,218 According to the results as announced, Tinubu and former vice president ...