The electoral commission, INEC, has declared Bola Tinubu,
the candidate of Nigeria’s ruling party, APC, as the winner of Saturday’s
presidential election.
Mr Tinubu defeated 17 other candidates who
took part in the election. He scored a total of 8,794,726 votes, the highest of
all the candidates, thus meeting the first constitutional requirement to be
declared the winner.
He also scored over 25 per cent of the votes
cast in 30 states, more than the 24 states constitutionally required.
INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu, who announced
the final results in the early hours of Wednesday in Abuja, said Atiku Abubakar
of the PDP came second in the election.
Atiku polled a total of 6,984,520 votes in the
election.
Peter Obi of the Labour Party came third in
the election with a total of 6,101,533 votes while Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP
came fourth with 1,496,687 votes
Mr
Yakubu said a Certificate of Return for the President and Vice President will
be presented by 3 p.m. on Wednesday at the National Collation Centre.
Only the top four candidates won the
presidential election in at least one state. Each of Messrs Tinubu, Atiku and
Obi won in 12 states while Mr Kwankwaso won only in Kano
However, winning a majority of states is not a
requirement for a candidate to be declared the winner of the election.
States Won
Mr Tinubu won the election in Rivers, Borno,
Jigawa, Zamfara, Benue, Kogi, Kwara, Niger, Osun, Ekiti, Ondo, Oyo and Ogun
states.
Atiku won in Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, Kaduna,
Gombe, Yobe, Bauchi, Adamawa and Taraba states. He also won in Osun, Akwa Ibom
and Bayelsa states.
Mr Obi won in Edo, Cross River, Delta, Lagos,
FCT, Plateau, Imo, Ebonyi, Nasarawa, Anambra, Abia and Enugu states.
Mr Kwankwaso won in only Kano State.
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