The outgoing British High Commissioner in Nigeria, Catriona Laing, described the 2023 Presidential and National Assembly elections as fascinating and offered future assuredness for democratic governance in the country.
The polls, which were conducted on Saturday, February 25, 2023, had the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as the winner.
The Independent National Electoral Commission’s chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, had in the early hours of Wednesday, March 1, declared All Progressives Congress’ Tinubu as the winner of the election to beat Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party’s Peter Obi, who came second and third respectively in the keenly contested poll.
Tinubu, a former Lagos State governor, was declared the winner of Saturday’s election with 8.8 million votes and the required number of ballots across two-thirds of Nigeria’s states.
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