Adebayo Adenrele
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has declared the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as winner of 2023 presidential election.
Tinubu was announced by the chairman of the Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, in the early hours of today.
The former governor of Lagos State polled 8,805,420 votes to win over his three major Rivals, Atiku Abubakar of Peoples Democratic Party, Peter Obi of Labour Party and Rabiu Kwankwaso of New Nigeria Peoples Party candidate.
NEWSTODAYNG gathered that Tinubu led his closest challenger, Atiku Abubakar (PDP), with about 1.8 million votes, having won in 12 states each.
Atiku polled 6,984,290 votes to emerge second, while Peter Obi (LP), was third with 6,093,962 votes.
Tinubu lost Lagos, a state considered to be his home-front and Osun State to Obi and Atiku, respectively.
He, however, won in Oyo (449, 884 votes); Ondo (369,924); Ekiti (201,494) and Ogun (341,554) to emerge victorious p in the South-West.
Tinubu also won in seven northern states, including Kwara (263,572); Jigawa (421,390); Zamfara (298,396); Borno (252,282); Benue (310,468); Kogi (240,751) and Niger (375,183).
The APC presidential candidate also emerged victorious in Rivers State by polling 231,591 votes.
Atiku, on the other hand, also won in seven states in the North- Kaduna (554,360 votes); Sokoto (288,679); Adamawa (417,611); Gombe (319,123); Yobe (198,567); Katsina (489,045) and Taraba (189,017).
The PDP presidential candidate won one state in the South-West- Osun (354,366) and two states in the South-South- Bayelsa (68,818) and Akwa Ibom (214,012).
Peter Obi pulled the biggest upset as he defeated Tinubu in his base, Lagos State, where he polled 582,664 votes.
He also took many by surprise as he won in Abuja after polling 281,717 votes; Nasarawa State (191,361 votes); and Plateau State (466,272 votes).
In the South-South, the Labour Party presidential candidate defeated his APC and PDP counterparts in Cross River (179,917), Delta (341,866) and Edo (331,163).
Obi dominated the South-East by winning Abia (327,095); Anambra (584,621); Ebonyi (259,738) Enugu (428,640) and Imo (352,904).
