The All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, has been declared the president-elect by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
This comes amid Labour Party and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) protests and calls from various quarters for the election results to be annulled due to irregularities in the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS)
Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, was declared president-elect after receiving 8,794,726 votes in the 2023 presidential election.
Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of INEC, announced Tinubu as the winner in the early hours of Wednesday at the International Collation Centre in Abuja.
Tinubu defeated other candidates, including the Peoples Democratic Party’s Atiku Abubakar, the Labour Party’s Peter Obi, and the New Nigeria Peoples Party’s Rabiu Kwankwaso.
The three leading presidential candidates each won 12 states, while Kwankwaso won only Kano.
Tinubu defeated Atiku, a former vice president and his closest rival, with 1.8 million votes.