The All Progressives Congress presidential
candidate, Bola Tinubu, has been declared the winner of the February 25, 2023,
general elections in Nigeria by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, was
proclaimed president-elect after receiving 8,794,726 votes in the 2023
presidential election.
Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of INEC,
declared Tinubu the winner at the International Collation Centre in Abuja in
the early hours of Wednesday, March 1, 2023.
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 captured 12 states, while Kwankwaso won only Kano.
Tinubu vanquished Atiku, a former vice
president and his main opponent, with 1.8 million voters.
According to the PUNCH, Tinubu will run for
President of the United States for the first time in 2023. The former senator
left office as a two-term governor of Lagos State in 2007 and is credited with
heading the alliance that ousted the PDP from power in 2015. In recent years,
he has expanded his influence beyond the South-West region.
Aside from Tinubu, Obi, Atiku, and Kwankwaso,
other candidates vying for the presidency include Dumebi Kachikwu of the
African Democratic Congress, Kola Abiola of the People’s Redemption Party,
Omoyele Sowore of the Africa Action Congress, Adewole Adebayo of the Social
Democratic Party, Malik Ado-Ibrahim of the Young Progressive Party, Prof
Christopher Imumulen of the Accord Party, Prof Peter
