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INEC Declares Tinubu Winner Of 2023 Presidential Election

        Bola Tinubu and his vice, Kashim Shettima 

 The former Governor of Lagos State, Ahmed Tinubu has been declared the winner of the 2023 Presidential election. 

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)  Chairman Mahmood Yakubu announced the final results in the early hours of Wednesday in Abuja. 

Tinubu scored a total of 8,794,726 votes, thereby attaining the constitutional requirement to be declared the winner.

This was even as he scored over 25 per cent of the votes cast in 30 states, more than the 25 states constitutionally required.

Yakubu said that Atiku Abubakar of the PDP came second with a total of 6,984,520 votes while the Labour Party Peter Obi placed third with a total of 6,101,533 votes. 

Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP came fourth with 1,496,687 votes.

Each of the candidates, Tinubu, Atiku and Obi won in 12 states while Mr Kwankwaso won only in Kano.

How They Won
Tinubu won the election in Rivers, Borno, Jigawa, Zamfara, Benue, Kogi, Kwara, Niger, Osun, Ekiti, Ondo, Oyo and Ogun states.

Atiku emerged victorious 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.

Mr Kwankwaso won in only Kano State.

At least, 18 contestants slugged it out during the last Saturday’s presidential election. 

FINAL RESULT OF THE 2023 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AS PRESENTED BY THE INEC CHAIRMAN AT THE COLLATION CENTRE 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 VOTE CAST 24,965,218

PDP, LP Seek Cancellation Of Election
Meanwhile, the PDP and LP have sought the cancellation of the results. 
They stated this at a press conference organised by their vice-presidential candidates, Ifeanyi Okowa and Datti Baba-Ahmed, on Tuesday. 
The candidates lamented that INEC failed to upload the results of elections in the over 170,000 polling units into a central server (IReV) as required by law.
They argued that it should have been implemented before the collation and announcement of final results. 
 The candidates also called on the chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, to resign given the irregularities that marred the election. 
But INEC has vowed that the chairman would not step down, adding that any aggrieved party should follow the law to air its grievances.

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