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Last Saturday, Nigerians across the country filed out to elect the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd)’s successor.
During the early hours of Wednesday, the Independent National Electoral Commission 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.
However, the three leading presidential candidates won in 12 states each. Aside the eventual winner, other candidates are Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi of the Peoples Democratic Party and Labour party respectively.
Below is the breakdown of states won by the trio:
Tinubu
1) EKITI
APC 201,494
LP 11,397
PDP 89,554
2) OGUN
APC 341,558
LP 85,829
PDP 123,831
3) OYO
APC 449,884
LP 99,110
PDP 182,977
4) KWARA
APC 263,572
LP 31,141
PDP 136,909
5) ONDO
APC 369,924
LP 44,405
PDP 115,463
6) JIGAWA
APC 421,390
LP 1,889
PDP 386,587
7) BENUE
APC 31O,468
LP 308,372
PDP 130,081
8) NIGER
APC 375,183
LP 80,452
PDP 284,898
9) KOGI
APC 240,751
LP 56,217
PDP 145,104
10) ZAMFARA
APC 298,396
LP 1,660
PDP 193,978
11) RIVERS
