INEC declares Tinubu presidential election winner with 8,794,726 votes
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Bola Tinubu, 70, a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has been declared winner of the presidential election held on 25 February by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) amid complaints by opposition parties the INEC broke the law by not transmitting results electronically.
Also, Tinubu did not meet the requirement that a presidential candidate must score at least 25 per cent of the votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja to be declared winner.
Section 133 (1) (b) of the Constitutions says a candidate can only be declared president if “he has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two-thirds of all the States in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.”
Labour Party (LP) candidate Peter Obi won 59 per cent of the votes in the FCT, Tinubu 19 per cent, and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Atiku Abubakar 15 per cent.
INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu declared Tinubu President-elect at 4.10am on Wednesday at the national collation centre in Abuja, having polled 8,794,726 votes, followed by Atiku (6,984,520), Obi (6,101,533), and Kwankwaso (1,496,687).
“That Tinubu Bola Ahmed of the APC, having satisfied the requirements of the law is hereby declared the winner and returned elected,” Yakubu said, per The PUNCH.
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Other candidates
Other candidates include Dumebi Kachikwu (African Democratic Congress); Kola Abiola (People’s Redemption Party); Omoyele Sowore (Africa Action Congress); Adewole Adebayo (Social Democratic Party) Malik Ado-Ibrahim (Young Progressive Party); Christopher Imumulen (Accord Party); Peter Umeadi (All Progressives Grand Alliance); Yusuf Mamman Dan Talle (Allied Peoples Movement).
They also include Hamza Al-Mustapha (Action Alliance); Sani Yusuf (Action Democratic Party); Nnnadi Osita (Action Peoples Party); Oluwafemi Adenuga (Boot Party); Osakwe Felix Johnson (National Rescue Movement); and Nwanyanwu Daniel Daberechukwu (Zenith Labour Party).