APC Presidential candidate Tinubu Tuesday emerged as president-elect having defeated Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) and 14 others.
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, who announced the result at 4.10 am, said APC Presidential candidate Tinubu got 8, 794,726 votes from the 24,025, 940 total valid votes cast.
He said Tinubu’s closest challenger, Atiku, polled 6,984, 520 votes.
LP’s Obi garnered 6,101,533; while Kwankwaso of the NNPP scored 1,496,687.
Yakubu said APC Presidential candidate Tinubu, having satisfied the requirements of the law, is returned elected.
He said the certificate of return will be issued to the president-elect and the vice president-elect, Kashim Shettima, by 3 pm today.
Tinubu, who defeated Atiku with over 1.8m votes, won majority of the votes cast in 12 states -Zamfara, Jigawa, Niger, Kwara, Oyo, Ekiti, Kogi, Benue, Ogun, Borno, Ondo, and Rivers states.
On his part, PDP’s Atiku, who came second, also won in 12 states even as LP’s Peter Obi led in 11 states and the FCT.
The states where Atiku won are Osun, Kebbi, Sokoto, Katsina, Kaduna, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Yobe, Gombe, Adamawa and Taraba; while Obi won in Abia, Lagos, Edo, Enugu, Anambra, Imo, Ebonyi, Cross River, Delta, Nasarawa, Plateau and FCT.
Kwankwaso won in Kano.