BREAKING: Tinubu wins Nigeria 2023 presidential election

Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Wednesday declared Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the candidate of Nigeria’s ruling party, APC, as the winner of Saturday’s presidential election.

Tinubu defeated 17 other candidates who took part in the election. He scored a total of 8,794,726 votes, the highest of all the candidates, thus meeting the first constitutional requirement to be declared the winner.

He also scored over 25 per cent of the votes cast in 30 states, more than the 25 states constitutionally required.

INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu, who announced the results in the early hours of Wednesday in Abuja, said Atiku Abubakar of the PDP came second in the election.

Atiku polled a total of 6,984,520 votes in the election.

Peter Obi of the Labour Party came third in the election with a total of 6,101,533 votes while Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP came fourth with 1,496,687 votes.

Only the top four candidates won the presidential election in at least one state. Each of Messrs Tinubu, Atiku and Obi won in 12 states while Mr Kwankwaso won only in Kano.

However, winning a majority of states is not a requirement for a candidate to be declared the winner of the election.

The APC candidate won the election in Rivers, Borno, Jigawa, Zamfara, Benue, Kogi, Kwara, Niger, Osun, Ekiti, Ondo, Oyo and Ogun states.

Atiku won in Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, Kaduna, Gombe, Yobe, Bauchi, Adamawa and Taraba states. He also won in Osun, Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa states.

Obi won in Edo, Cross River, Delta, Lagos, FCT, Plateau, Imo, Ebonyi, Nasarawa, Anambra, Abia and Enugu states.

Kwankwaso won in only Kano State.

FULL RESULT OF THE 2023 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AS PRESENTED BY THE INEC CHAIRMAN ON WEDNESDAY, 1ST MARCH, 2023

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