The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Asíwájú Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressive Congress (APC) the winner of Nigeria’s seventh presidential election.
Tinubu polled a total of 8,794,726 votes to defeat his closest rival, Atiku Abubakar, of the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP), who scored 6,984,520 to emerge second.
Peter Obi, of the Labour Party (LP), clinched third position, with 6,101,533 votes; while the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) came a distant fourth, with 1,496,687.
Declaring the result Mahmoud Yakubu, the INEC chairman, said, “Bola Tinubu, of APC, having satisfied the requirements of the law, is hereby declared the winner of the election”.
Obi said that there were 2,466,638 total registered voters; 241,523 total valid votes; 249,631 total votes cast and 8,108 rejected votes.
According to a breakdown of the Presidential election result, as presented at National Collation Centre, Abuja, the total accredited voters were 25,286,616 and the total votes cast was 24,965,218.
