The INEC boss announced that Tinubu and the Vice President-elect Kashim Shettima will get their certificates of return at 3.00pm on Wednesday.
By Jeffrey Agbo
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, as the president-elect.
INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made the announcement at 4:10 am on Wednesday in Abuja.
Tinubu, candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat his rivals – Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi of Labour Party (LP) and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) among others.
The INEC boss announced that Tinubu and the Vice President-elect Kashim Shettima will get their certificates of return at 3.00pm on Wednesday.
Tinubu won in 12 states scattered across five of the country’s six geo-political zones. He did not win in any of the five states in the South East, where LP candidate Obi hails from. Obi got the bulk of his 6,984,520 votes from the South East. He took all the five states.
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Tinubu won in Ekiti, Ondo, Ogun, Oyo (South West); Niger, Benue, Kogi, Kwara (North Central); Zamfara, Jigawa (North West); Borno (North East); and Rivers (South South).
He got 25 per cent of the total valid votes in 27 states.
The states where he got the required spread are: Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Sokoto, Bauchi, Yobe, Kano, Kebbi, Plateau, Gombe, Kaduna, Nasarawa, Katsina, Taraba, Lagos and Osun.
Atiku polled 6,984,520 votes. The PDP candidate won in Yobe, Gombe, Adamawa, Bauchi and Taraba states (North East); Katsina, Kaduna, Kebbi, Sokoto states (North West); Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa (South South) and Osun state (South West).
The PDP candidate did not win in any state in North Central and South East regions.
Obi won in Enugu, Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi and Imo (South East); Lagos (South West); Plateau and Nasarawa (North Central); Cross River, Edo and Delta (South South), as well as the FCT.
The former Anambra State governor did not win in any of the North East states.
The NNPP candidate, Kwankwaso, got 1,476,697 votes. He won in Kano.
