ABUJA-(MaraviPost)-The newly elected Nigeria leader Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appealed for unity amongst the citizenry following contested polls.
After Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Tinubu as Nigerian President, the 70-year old godfather says he wants to make Nigeria great.
Tinubu, a former Lagos State governor, was declared the president-elect after the 70-year-old polled 8,794,726 votes to win the 2023 presidential election.
The INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, announced Tinubu as the winner at the International Collation Centre in Abuja during the early hours of Wednesday.
Tinubu won the election ahead of other contenders — the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Atiku Abubakar; the Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi; and the New Nigeria Peoples Party candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso.
The states won by Tinubu so far include Ogun, Oyo, Ondo, Kwara, Ekiti, Kogi, Benue, Zamfara and Jigawa, while Atiku emerged victorious in Bauchi, Yobe, Gombe, Kaduna, Kebbi, Bayelsa, Adamawa and Akwa Ibom.
On the other hand, Obi has won Lagos, Enugu, Cross River, Nasarawa, Imo, Anambra, Abia, Delta and Plateau states as well as the FCT.
In the final computation, APC polled 8,794,726 votes, PDP amassed 6,984,520 votes, LP scored 6,101,533 votes and NNPP garnered 1,496,687 votes.
Declaring Tinubu as the winner, the INEC boss said, “That Tinubu Bola Ahmed of the APC, having satisfied the requirements of the law is hereby declared the winner and returned elected.”
Meanwhile, outgoing Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated president-elect Bola Tinubu, saying he is the best man for the job.
“I shall now work with him and his team to ensure an orderly handover of power,” the president said in a statement.
Mr Tinubu’s win has been disputed by opposition parties, who have demanded a rerun.
President Buhari is stepping down after two terms in office.
LAGOS-(MaraviPost)-The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, as the president-elect.
Tinubu, a former Lagos State governor, was declared the president-elect after the 70-year-old polled 8,794,726 votes to win the 2023 presidential election.
The INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, announced Tinubu as the winner at the International Collation Centre in Abuja during the early hours of Wednesday.
Tinubu won the election ahead of other contenders — the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Atiku Abubakar; the Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi; and the New Nigeria Peoples Party candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso.
Bola Tinubu, New Nigerian President
The three leading presidential candidates won in 12 states each while Kwankwaso claimed only Kano State.
Tinubu edged Atiku, a former vice president and his closest challenger, with no fewer than 1.8 million votes.
The PUNCH reports that the 2023 presidential election is the first time that Tinubu contested for the nation’s top job. The former senator left office as a two-term governor of Lagos State in 2007 and is credited with leading the coalition that ousted the PDP from power in 2015 and has extended his influence beyond the South-West region in recent years.
Aside from Tinubu; Obi; Atiku, and Kwankwaso, other candidates that gunned for the nation’s oval office include Dumebi Kachikwu of the African Democratic Congress; Kola Abiola, People’s Redemption Party; Omoyele Sowore, Africa Action Congress; Adewole Adebayo, Social Democratic Party; Malik Ado-Ibrahim, Young Progressive Party; Prof Christopher Imumulen, Accord Party; Prof Peter Umeadi, All Progressives Grand Alliance; and Yusuf Mamman Dan Talle, Allied Peoples Movement.
The list also includes Hamza Al-Mustapha, Action Alliance; Sani Yusuf, Action Democratic Party; Nnnadi Osita, Action Peoples Party; Oluwafemi Adenuga, Boot Party; Osakwe Felix Johnson, National Rescue Movement; and Nwanyanwu Daniel Daberechukwu, Zenith Labour Party.
A tally of the votes announced by electoral officials from the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Tinubu, in Borno, polled 252,282 votes across the 27 local government areas and was declared the winner by the state Collation Officer, Prof. Jude Rabo.
Atiku and Obi could only garner 190,921 votes and 7,205, respectively while Kwankwaso amassed 4,626 votes.Related News
In Rivers State, Tinubu raked in 231,591 votes from 23 LGAs while the LP scored 175, 071 votes and the PDP polled 88, 468 votes.
The Federal Capital Territory, however, proved to be a game changer for the Labour Party, which floored both Tinubu and his PDP counterpart.
Obi’s popularity in Abuja fetched him 281,717 votes while the former Lagos governor and the former VP shared the remaining slots of 90,902 votes and 74,149 respectively. Kwankwaso also polled 4,517 votes.
But Tinubu made up for his losses in some northern and middle belt states which included Zamfara, Kwara, Kogi, Benue and Kogi States.
In Benue, the APC amassed 310,468 votes to relegate LP (308,372), PDP (130,081) and NNPP (4,740) to second, third and fourth places.
In Zamfara State, he polled 298,396 votes against LP’s 1,660; NNPP’s 4,044 and the PDP’s 193,978 votes.
As expected, Obi soared above other candidates in Plateau where he won by 466,272 votes compared to APC’s 307,195; PDP’s 243,808 while NNPP settled for 8,869 votes.
The states won by Tinubu so far include Ogun, Oyo, Ondo, Kwara, Ekiti, Kogi, Benue, Zamfara and Jigawa, while Atiku emerged victorious in Bauchi, Yobe, Gombe, Kaduna, Kebbi, Bayelsa, Adamawa and Akwa Ibom.
On the other hand, Obi has won Lagos, Enugu, Cross River, Nasarawa, Imo, Anambra, Abia, Delta and Plateau states as well as the FCT.
In the final computation, APC polled 8,794,726 votes, PDP amassed 6,984,520 votes, LP scored 6,101,533 votes and NNPP garnered 1,496,687 votes.
Declaring Tinubu as the winner, the INEC boss said, “That Tinubu Bola Ahmed of the APC, having satisfied the requirements of the law is hereby declared the winner and returned elected.”
LAGOS-(PUNCH)-Peoples Democratic Party Senators representing both Ebonyi North and Ebonyi South senatorial zones, Dr Sam Egwu and Micheal Nnachi; and senatorial candidate of the party for Ebonyi Central, Hon. Lazarus Ogbe, on Monday, called for the cancellation of Saturday’s election in the state.
Also asking the National Independent National Electoral Commission to cancel the election is the senatorial candidate of the Labour Party for Ebonyi South, Hon. Linus Okorie.
According to them, the National Assembly and the presidential election in Ebonyi were marred with irregularities and other forms of electoral manipulations.
They spoke at a joint press conference at the INEC Headquarters, Abakaliki, on Monday.
Speaking, Egwu, who is a former Ebonyi governor, accused the state government of influencing the electoral process, adding the electorates were denied the opportunity to exercise their fundamental human rights.
He said, “The truth of the matter is that what is happened in Ebonyi State as far this election is concerned, is a sham. You should know that the use of BVAS was not adhered to. People are just voting as if we are still in the old period where you just collect a sheet of paper, write numbers and pass it on to INEC officials. That’s just what is happened.
“My prayer is that the results being churned out by these fraudulent INEC staff should be cancelled, and let the BVAS-generated results be used. Nobody should use what has been given, but we are saying the results should be verified by the BVAS. We are challenging these results.”
Also, LP senatorial candidate for Ebonyi South, Okorie urged the INEC to suspend the exercise. According to him, Umahi was desperate and knew his political imprisonment was near if he lost the election.
He said, “I request the suspension of return of senatorial election conducted in the district on February 25, 2023 pending the conduct of elections in areas where election did not hold or were undermined in accordance with the provisions of the electoral act 2022; and other irregularities.
“I call for the suspension of the election pending full compliance with the provisions of section 24 of the electoral act 2022, especially section 24(3) in the wards and polling units enumerated above. I also call for the re-collation of the polling unit results across the 5 local government areas of the senatorial district before any return can be made.”
The Senator for Ebonyi South Zone and PDP senatorial candidate, Nnachi accused Governor David Umahi of meddling with the future of the people with his ‘treachery’ in the election.
He said, “Of course, all of you know I’m the Senator representing the Ebonyi South Zone. And so what Dr Egwu and the other senatorial candidates have said is exactly that, and that’s a shame on this government. Umahi never came close to me in the election, except that he resorted to the use of his thugs and manipulated the voting process and these thugs beat up people and had field day influencing the process, even at Libolo in the Afikpo South LGA of Ebonyi State.
“These thugs now invalidated our results and forged theirs. This is the height of impunity and irregularity in any electoral process. We won’t allow it. We won’t. If I lose, I prefer to lose well. I defeated Umahi in the two polling units in his Umunaga Ward and it happened in the presence of everybody until Umahi unleashed his thugs on the people, after sharing money. The governor is treacherous.”
On his part, Ogbe said, “Mine is a little bit different because they have not completed the computation of results in Ebonyi Central. But from what we have seen, the electoral malpractice in the entire Ebonyi State is just similar. There is rigging everywhere and it’s the height of it.
“Here, there is adding and allocation of numbers or figures to APC candidates. For instance, in Ikwo LGA of the state, they have continued to panel beat, and rework the results that came out from Ikwo, for the past 24 hours. Unfortunately, what is coming out from the Ward or polling units do not tally with what has been brought to the INEC collation centre.”
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