Mr Tinubu won in Rivers, Borno, Jigawa, Zamfara, Benue, Kogi, Kwara, Niger, Osun, Ogun, Ekiti, Ondo, and Oyo states.
The electoral commission, Independent National Electorate Commission (INEC), has declared Bola Tinubu, the candidate of Nigeria’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the winner of Nigeria’s presidential election held on Saturday 25th of February 2023.
Mr Tinubu defeated 17 other candidates who took part in the presidential 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.
Mr Tinubu, now the President Elect also scored over 25 per cent of the votes cast in 30 states, more than the 25 states constitutionally required.
The INEC Chairman Professor Mahmood Yakubu, who announced the final results in the early hours of Wednesday in Abuja, said Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) came second in the election.
Mr Atiku polled a total of 6,984,520 votes in the election.
Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP)came third in the election with a total of 6,101,533 votes while Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) came fourth with 1,496,687 votes.
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.
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States Won
Mr Tinubu won the election in Benue, Rivers, Borno, Jigawa, Zamfara, Kogi, Kwara, Niger, Osun, Ekiti, Ondo, Oyo and Ogun states.
Atiku won in Adamawa, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, Kaduna, Gombe, Yobe, Bauchi, and Taraba states. He also won in Osun, Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa states.
Mr Obi won in Lagos, FCT, Enugu, Cross River, Delta, Plateau, Imo, Ebonyi, Nasarawa, Anambra, Abia and Edo states.
Mr Kwankwaso won in only Kano.
Labour Pary & People’s Democratic Party call for cancellation
While the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its supporters celebrate their electoral victory, the PDP and the LP have called for the cancellation of the results.
The PDP and the LP made their positions clear at a press conference on Tuesday, which was attended by their vice-presidential candidates, Ifeanyi Okowa and Datti Baba-Ahmed, respectively.
“The election was a sham, and never free and fair,” said Mr Okowa of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a position corroborated by the LP’s vice-presidential candidate, Mr Datti Yusuf.
Their main complaint is that INEC failed to upload election results from over 170,000 polling units to a central server (IReV) as required by law. They claimed that this step should have been completed prior to the compilation and announcement of results.
At the press conference, the two parties also demanded that INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu step down due to what they called electoral irregularities and malfeasance. INEC has since responded, stating that its chairman will not resign and that any party unhappy with the election process should file a complaint with the appropriate authorities.
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FINAL RESULT OF THE 2023 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AS PRESENTED BY THE INEC CHAIRMAN AT THE COLLATION CENTRE ON WEDNESDAY 1ST MARCH, 2023
TOTAL REGISTERED VOTERS 93,469,008
ACCREDITED VOTERS 25,286,616
A 61,014
AA 14,542
AAC 14,608
ADC 81,919
ADP 43,924
APC 8,794,726
APGA 61,966
APM 25,961
APP 12,839
BP 16,156
LP 6,101,533
NNPP 1,496,687
NRM 24,869
PDP 6,984,520
PRP 72,144
SDP 80,267
YPP 60,600
ZLP 77,665
TOTAL VALID VOTES 24,025,940
TOTAL REJECTED VOTES: 939,278
TOTAL VOTE CAST 24,965,218
