{"id":15001,"date":"2023-03-01T06:01:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T06:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=15001"},"modified":"2023-03-01T06:01:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T06:01:06","slug":"inec-declares-apc-presidential-candidate-bola-tinubu-winner-of-2023-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=15001","title":{"rendered":"INEC Declares APC presidential candidate Bola Tinubu winner of 2023 presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">INEC Declares APC presidential candidate Bola Tinubu winner of 2023 presidential election<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">Zainab Tanimu<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"auto\">INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu, made this declaration in the early hours of Wednesday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The All Progressives Congress (APC) won the election with the majority of votes cast in 36 states of Nigeria and the FCT.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The APC candidate polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat other contenders, Atiku Abubakar of the opposition People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP)\u00a0 and Peter Obi of the Labour Party LP.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Atiku Abubakar polled 6,984,520 votes to come second while Peter Obi of Labour Party got 6,101,533 votes to come third.<\/div>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The New Nigeria People\u2019s Party (NNPP) candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso won in Kano state with 1,496,687 votes.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Tinubu, Obi, and Atiku won 12 states each in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The 12 states won by\u00a0 each candidates are as follows.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Tinubu won in Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Kwara, Benue, Rivers, Borno, Zamfara, Jigawa, Ondo, Kogi and Niger State.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Atiku Abubakar of the PDP won in Taraba, Osun, Akwa Ibom, Adamawa, Kaduna, Sokoto, Yobe, Bayelsa, Kebbi, Bauchi, Gombe and Katsina.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Obi won in the following states; Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo, Anambra, Abia, Delta, Edo, FCT, Plateau, Nasarawa, Lagos and Cross River.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Kwankwaso of the NNPP won in Kano state.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Altogether, 18 presidential candidates contested the election.<\/div>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">The INEC Chairman will be presenting<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Certificate of Return for the President and Vice President by 3 p.m. on Wednesday at the National Collation Centre.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INEC Declares APC presidential candidate Bola Tinubu winner of 2023 presidential election Zainab Tanimu Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election. INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu, made this declaration in the early hours of Wednesday in Abuja. The All Progressives Congress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>INEC Declares APC presidential candidate Bola Tinubu winner of 2023 presidential election -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=15001\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"INEC Declares APC presidential candidate Bola Tinubu winner of 2023 presidential election -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"INEC Declares APC presidential candidate Bola Tinubu winner of 2023 presidential election Zainab Tanimu Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election. 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