Tinubu is President-elect
Tinubu is President-elect
APC candidate wins 12 states, Atiku 12, Obi 12, Kwankwaso 1
AT EXACTLY 4.10 am, this morning, the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, was declared President-elect, bringing to an end the presidential poll that started last Saturday.
“I, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the Chief Returning Officer for the February 25 presidential election, hereby, declare that Tinubu Bola Ahmed, having satisfied the law is hereby declared the winner,” Professor Yakubu, who is also the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared.
The declaration threw the crowd in the National Collation Centre into a wild jubilation. The certificate of return will be presented to Tinubu at 3pm, today, Professor Yakubu said.
Tinubu polled 8,794,726 votes and won in 12 states to beat Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who came second with 6,984,520 votes and also won in 12 states.
The Labour Party, LP, Candidate, Mr. Peter Obi polled 6,101,533 votes to place a close third. He also won 11 states and the FCT.
Former Governor of Kano State and New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Candidate, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, came fourth with 1,496,687 votes.
Tinubu won Ekiti, Kwara, Ondo, Oyo, Ogun, Jigawa, Niger, Benue, Kogi, Borno, Kebbi, Zamfara and Rivers states.
Atiku won Osun, Yobe, Gombe, Adamawa, Katsina, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Kaduna, Kebbi and Sokoto states.
This was as Mr. Peter Obi’s electoral Tsunami in the South-East and South-South, continued, yesterday as he added Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Imo, Delta and Cross River to his kitty. He had earlier won Lagos, Edo and Enugu
Outside both zones, he also prevailed in Plateau State and Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, and Nasarawa.
The LP candidate recorded the best performance in his home state of Anambra garnering 584,621 votes. Tinubu got 5,111 votes, Atiku, 9,036 votes; and Kwankwaso 1,967 votes.
Obi polled 327,095 votes in Abia while Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC got 8,914 votes; Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, scored 22,676; and Senator Rabiu Kwakwanso of the New Nigeria Party, NNPP, got 1,239 votes.
In Abuja, the results were Tinubu-90,902; Obi-281,717; Atiku-74,194; and Kwankwaso-4,517
Obi also clinched Plateau where he got 466,272 votes; Tinubu had 301,195 votes; Atiku scored 243,808 votes while Kwankwaso had 8,869 votes.
In Cross River, Obi won with 179,917 votes compared to Tinubu’s 130,520 votes; Atiku’s 95,425 votes and Kwakwanso’s 16,444 votes Obi has now won Lagos, Enugu, FCT, Edo, Abia, Cross River, Anambra and Plateau states while Kwankwaso has won only Kano.
Obi calls for calm
Meanwhile, Obi, yesterday, called on his supporters to remain calm.
Speaking at the Asaba Airport, Delta State, Mr. Obi, said: “We should remain calm, consistent and persistent.
“All we are asking for is good governance. Let the government care for the poor people.”
The results of the 18 political parties are: A-61,014; AA-14,542; AAC-14,608; ADC—81,919; ADP—43,924; APC—8,794, 726; APGA—61,966; APM-61,966; 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; and ZLP-77,665.
Tinubu files suit to stop LP, PDP from halting results’ collation
THE All Progres
sives Congress, APC, and its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, have instituted a suit before a Federal High Court sitting in Kano, to restrain the Labour Party, LP, and the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, from doing anything to stop the collation and announcement of the results of the February 25, presidential election.
In the suit marked FHC/KN/CS/43/2023, the Action Alliance and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, were joined as defendants while the Vice Presidential of the APC, KashimShettima, was also listed as plaintiff.
The plaintiffs in a motion on notice filed alongside the originating summons, are asking the court to make the order restraining the defendants from stopping the collation and announcement of the results because “damages will not adequately compensate for the injury that may be occasioned on the Plaintiffs if by the Defendants stop the collation of the result.”
Both LP and PDP had called for a cancellation of the election over widespread violence, allegingrigging, intimidation of voters, doctoring of the results, and violation of the laid down electoral process which was communicated by the refusal of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
They also lamented the non-use of Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS, for transmitting results of the February 25, 2023, election and asked Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to step down as INEC chairman.
But Yakubu defended the election and asked aggrieved politicians to head for the court.