Tinubu polled a total of 8,794,726 votes and fulfilled the 25 percent votes from 24 states as stipulated in the Electoral Act 2022 as amended
By Kehinde Okeowo
The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, as the president-elect.
This was made known by the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, at the International Collation Centre in Abuja during the early hours of Wednesday.
Tinubu polled a total of 8,794,726 to defeat his closest rivals and candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP who scored 6,984, 520 and 6,101,533 respectively.
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Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, came a distant fourth after securing 1,496,687 votes.
According to the INEC chairman, the former Lagos State governor also fulfilled the 25 percent votes from 24 States as stipulated in the Electoral Act 2022 as amended.
The three contenders won twelve states each, including the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, while Kwankwaso cleared Kano State.
Aside from Tinubu; Obi; Atiku, and Kwankwaso, other candidates that gunned for the nation’s oval office include Dumebi Kachikwu of the 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; Prof Christopher Imumulen, Accord Party; Prof Peter Umeadi, All Progressives Grand Alliance; and Yusuf Mamman Dan Talle, Allied Peoples Movement.
The list also includes 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.