The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, as the president-elect amidst controversies of violation of electoral act and the FCT requirements interpretation.

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 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 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.

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.”

The two major contenders have since rejected the process while the results were being collated. Also, the APC Candidate did not meet the 25% requirement in the federal capital territory which has been given various interpretation by lawyers.

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, have instituted a suit 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 filed before the Federal High Court in Kano and 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, Kashim Shettima, was also listed as plaintiff.

The plaintiffs in a motion on notice filed alongside the originating summons, asked 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.”

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The political parties have raised objection to further collation of the Presidential election results until the results are uploaded from the BVAS to compare with the results being collated, citing section 64(4)(a)(b).

The INEC chairman is both the collation officer and the returning officer for presidential election under s. 25(2)(h) and d 25(3) of the Electoral Act 2022 respectively.

S. 64(5) of the Electoral Act 2022 requires the INEC chairman to verify the objection using the BVAS per s. 47(2), 60(4) of the Electoral Act 2022.

S. 64(6)(a)(b)(c)(d) of the Electoral Act requires the INEC chairman to resolve the objection using the original results from the polling units and the BVAS to verify the results per s. 47(2), 60(4) of the Electoral Act 2022.

S. 64(7) of the Electoral Act, requires that if INEC chairman finds that the result is not correct, he shall resolve it based on s.64(6)(a)(b)(c)(d) of the Electoral Act. He will have a new result, which he will announce.

S65(1)(c) of the Electoral Act 2022 further gives INEC chairman the power to review the presidential election results using the BVAS upload as required by Electoral Act 2022.

The intention of the legislation in making BVAS a law is to use the uploading of the results to avoid election rigging and manipulation; which INEC chairman is not complying with, raising suspicion of his being an accomplice in the ongoing presidential election rigging.

S. 70 permits INEC to make guidelines for elections; and one of them is the uploading of election results through BVAS as INEC informed Nigerians severally; apart from being Electoral Act requirement per s.64(5),(6)(a)(b)(c)(d) of the Electoral Act, it is also a subsidiary legislation by INEC guidelines that must be complied with.

S. 137 of the Electoral Act 2022 does not require oral evidence if a political party has original or certified true copies to prove non compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act.

So, the demand by the political parties that results be uploaded in INEC PORTAL from the BVAS to compare with the results being collated to know the correctness is legal per s. 68 of the Electoral Act 2022.

The refusal by INEC chairman to yield to the requests of the political parties is illegal; and consequently renders the presidential election results being collated illegal; because something (the results) cannot stand on nothing (the illegality). Failure of INEC chairman to act based on s.64(5),(6)(a)(b)(c)(d) of the Electoral Act will warrant his going to jail under s. 64(9) of the Electoral Act.

We wish to place the following on the record;

The President promised Nigerians free and fair elections with the passage of the new Electoral Act and indeed has repeated this promise multiple times.

The INEC Chairman also came before Nigerians and the Global community to promise free and fair elections and severally reiterated its readiness to conduct the elections.

What has become glaring is that none of these promises have been kept. All the promises made about deploying a fail-safe system anchored on BVAS were broken.

The internet and social media is awash with videos and photographic evidences of the pervasive violence and attacks that were visited on Nigerians with some attacks still on-going across the country as we speak.

The evidence of collusion between INEC and the security forces to subvert the will of the people are too numerous to be detailed here.

The INEC guidelines on the conduct of the elections were extensively breached and INEC has evidently been very reluctant to make the necessary adjustment to remedy the situation.

Contrary to the publicly advertised guidelines for the conduct of the elections, we are convinced that the processes leading to the results have been severely compromised. Consequently, we regret to state that we have lost confidence in the results being collated and being announced.

Nigerians have inundated us with calls and protests over INEC’s non-compliance with provisions of the electoral guidelines and the obvious manipulations of the election results.

We hereby call on INEC to suspend further
announcement of the results, and follow its own guidelines or completely cancel the entire election and make plans for another election with strict compliance with the stipulated laws and guidelines.

We ask the international community to walk their talk in Nigeria, and cease to condone the multiple evils being perpetrated in our country by the rulers of Nigeria. There cannot be one standard for Nigeria, and another for the rest of the world.

We thank Nigerians for their support for our candidates, and we assure you all that your mandate shall not be surrendered to a desperate gaggle of failed rulers, who have brought nothing but ruination on our
dear country. We urge that Nigerians remain peaceful and law abiding, whilst assured that we are doing everything within the law to protect your sacred mandate.

Thank you, and God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Barr Julius Aburi

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi has opened up a massive lead in the presidential election results so far declared from Delta State.

According to the results of 10 local government areas so far announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Labour Party is leading in seven.

The remaining three were won by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) while the All Progressives Congress occupies a distant third position.

The LGAs declared in favour of Labour Party are: Ika South, Aniocha North, Ethiope West, Oshimili North, Ndokwa West, Aniocha South and Ethiope East.

The PDP has Ika North East, Bomadi and Warri North.

The PDP Vice Presidential candidate, Ifeanyi Okowa is from Delta and is the incumbent Governor, Naija News reports.

See the details of the results.

Ika North-East

APC – 1902

LP – 8980

PDP – 16696

Ika South

APC – 3290

LP – 17868

PDP – 7485

Aniocha North

APC – 1146

LP – 11678

PDP – 3783

Ethiope West

APC – 3850

LP – 10199

PDP – 5463

Oshimili North

APC – 1688

LP – 14929

PDP – 4796

Bomadi

APC – 2,421

LP – 3,134

PDP – 4,429

PDP- 8,599

Warri North

APC – 1,379

LP – 2,417

PDP – 3,411

Aniocha South

APC – 1,686

LP – 14,208

PDP – 4,672

Ethiope East

APC – 6,314

LP – 10,808

PDP – 7,854

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP Peter Obi has defeated the presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in Lagos, his home state.

According to the results declared, Obi polled 582,664 while Tinubu scored 541,850.

Although, the APC candidate won more local government areas, Obi defeated Tinubu with the majority of the votes cast in the state.

All the results of the 20 local governments have been declared. Tinubu won in 11 while Obi won in nine local governments.

See the results below.

Lagos State
Presidential Election
1) Agege LGA Lagos
APC 29,568
LP 13,270
NNPP 1513
PDP 4498

2) Badagry LGA Lagos
APC 31,903
LP 10,956
NNPP 153
PDP 6,024
Meanwhile the LP agent collation agent alleged that the LG agent was asked to sign the result at gunpoint

3) Ikeja LGA
APC 21,276
LP 30,004
NNPP 337
PDP 2280

4) Ibeju Lekki Lagos
APC 14, 685
LP 10,410
NNPP 104
PDP 2,329

5) IKORODU LGA
Registered voters – 364,072
Accredited voters – 89, 414
APC – 50, 353
LP – 28, 951
NNPP – 400
PDP – 4508
Valid votes – 84,096
Rejected votes – 3, 892
Labour Party Chairman, Lagos Dayo Ekon claimed it was 29,22 LP against the 28,951 recorded votes.

6) Epe LGA
APC: 19,867
PDP: 5,221
LP:3,497
NNPP: 76
7) Lagos Mainland
APC: 20,030
LP: 18,698
PDP: 3002

8) Amuwo Odofin
Registered Voters – 325,230
Accredited Voters – 75,489
Total Valid Votes – 73,007
APC – 13,318
LP – 55,547
PDP – 2,383

9) Kosofe
Registered Voters – 474,772
Accredited Voters – 94,838
Total Valid Votes –
APC – 36,883
LP – 46,554
PDP – 4,058

10) Oshodi Isolo LGA
APC: 27, 181
LP: 51,020
NNPP: 413
PDP: 3,139

11) Ajeromi Ifelodun LGA
APC: 25, 938
LP: 35,863
NNPP: 436
PDP: 4,680

12) Ijaiye
APC: 30,756
LP: 25,437
NNPP: 232
PDP: 2,997

13) Surulere LGA
APC:39,002
LP:36,923
NNPP: 442
PDP: 2651

14) ALIMOSHO LG

APC – 62, 909

LP – 71,327

NNPP 701

PDP – 8,201

15) OJO LGA

APC – 20603

LP – 38859

PDP – 3701

SOURCE : INEC

Vanguard

The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi is leading by votes in the results of the Presidential election held in Lagos on Saturday.

17 local governments had been declared by INEC as at 3:30 am before the collation was adjourned to 10: 00 am.

However, APC’s Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is leading in the local governments with 10 LGs already in his kitty while LP has won seven.

The local governments won by Tinubu include Agege, Apapa, Badagry, Epe, Ibeju-Lekki, Ifako-Ijaiye, Ikorodu, Lagos Island, Lagos Mainland and Surulere.

Obi on the other hand has in his bag Eti-Osa, Amuwo Odofin, Ikeja, Ajeromi-Ifelodun, Kosofe, Oshodi-Isolo and Somolu

In total, Obi has polled 449,088 votes while Tinubu has so far garnered 416,431 votes, leaving .

Only the results of Alimosho, Ojo and Mushin are being expected.

Mushin LG’s result was initially announced by the Collation Officer but it was rejected to some dispute in the figure.

Tinubu, a former Governor of the State, is still projected to win the majority votes in the state with Alimosho, Ojo and Mushin results being expected.

Alimosho which is the largest local government in the state may likely give the APC Presidential Candidate an edge over his arch-rival while he has also won Mushin.

But Obi is projected to win Ojo, an area dominated by non-indigenes especially the Igbos.