The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election in Nigeria today, 1st of March 2023.
Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC chairman declared that the presidential candidate of the all progressive congress (APC) is the winner of the 2023 presidential election with the overall highest number of votes.
INEC chairman also said that the candidate of APC, Tinubu meets the constitutional requirement as he scored over 25 percent of the votes cast in 30 states.
He stated that Tinubu scored a total number of 8, 794726 votes as he won in 13 states.
Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the peoples democratic party (PDP) became second as he got a total number of 6, 984, 520 votes. He won in 11 states.
Peter Obi of the Labour Party came in third position as he has a total number of 6, 101, 533 votes and won in 12 states.
However, the NNPP candidate, known as Kwankwaso scored a total number of 1, 496,687 and won in only Kano State.
IN SUMMARY:
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 VOTES CAST 24,965,218
