INEC declares Bola Ahmed Tinubu president-elect

ABUJA, Nigeria -The Independent and National Electoral Commission, INEC has declared candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu winner of the Presidential election held February 25, 2023.

Chairman of INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu said Tinubu scored a total of 8,794,726, to defeat Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 6,984,520 and Labour Party (LP)’s Peter Obi, who got 6,101,533.

The total votes cast was 24,965,218, out of which 939,278 were rejected votes.