Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu is in the lead after Saturday’s general election.
As of Monday night, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared collated results in 20 states.
Tinubu is ahead with 5,862,453 votes, while Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has secured 4,288,434 votes so far.
Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, is currently in third place with 2,834,932; Rabiu Kwankwaso, New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, polled 1,315,549.
Interestingly, Tinubu is the only top contender that failed to win home state, losing Lagos to Obi. Atiku won in President Muhammadu Buhari’s state – Katsina.
The results from other states, as well as the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, are expected to be presented today from 11am.
The International Conference Centre, ICC, in Abuja, venue of the national collation centre, remains under tight security.
The opposition on Monday called for the suspension of the announcement of results. PDP’s Dino Melaye and Emeka Ihedioha at some point walked out of the ICC.
The parties complained of irregularities, over-voting, refusal of officials to upload results on the INEC website, among others.
Checks by DAILY POST show that out of 176,846 polling units in 774 local government areas, submitted results are from 79,673 units.
Official results of 20 states:
KWARA
Tinubu – 263,572 Peter Obi – 31,116 Atiku – 136,909
OSUN
Tinubu – 343,945 Obi – 23,283 Atiku – 354,366*
ONDO
Tinubu – 369,924 Obi – 47,350 Atiku – 115,463
OGUN
Tinubu – 341,554 Obi – 85,829 Atiku – 123,831
OYO
Tinubu – 449,884 Obi – 99,110 Atiku – 182,977
ENUGU
Tinubu – 4,772 Obi – 428,640 Atiku – 15,749
GOMBE
Tinubu – 146,977 Obi – 26,160 Atiku – 319,123
JIGAWA
Tinubu – 421,390 Obi – 1,889 Atiku – 386,587
ADAMAWA
Tinubu – 182,881 Obi – 105,648 Atiku – 417,611
KATSINA
Tinubu – 482,283 Obi – 6,376 Atiku – 489,045
NASARAWA
Tinubu – 172,922 Obi – 191,361 Atiku – 147,093
PLATEAU
Tinubu – 307,195 Obi – 466,272 Atiku – 243,808
BAUCHI
Tinubu – 316,694 Obi – 24,910 Atiku – 426,607
KANO
Tinubu – 517,341 Obi – 28,513 Atiku – 131,716 Kwankwaso – 997,279
EKITI
Tinubu – 201,494 Obi – 11,397 Atiku – 89,554
BENUE
Tinubu – 310,469 Obi – 208,372 Atiku – 130,081
LAGOS
Tinubu – 572,606 Obi – 582,454 Atiku – 75,750
YOBE
Tinubu – 151,459 Obi – 2,406 Atiku – 198,567
EDO
Tinubu – 144,471 Obi – 331,163 Atiku – 89,585
AKWA IBOM
Tinubu – 160,620 Obi – 132,683 Atiku – 214,012
PDP is a party filled with greedy politicians, had it been they allowed Peter Obi to be their candidate and maybe Kwankwaso his vice.
Atiku have contesting for Presidential elections for years without winning.
Can you imagine summing up the votes of Peter Obi, Atiku and Kwankwaso together? this election should have ended since on Saturday.
A repeat of Atiku and Obi would have really worked wonders this time but for selfish reasons,they parted ways. Also if kwankwaso had stepped down while Atiku adopted Obi Tinubu won’t stand a chance.