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INEC Presents Certificate Of Return To Tinubu As President-elect (Video)

Published

1 March 2023

4:20 PM

The candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the just concluded presidential election, Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday received his Certificate of Return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the President-elect of Nigeria.

The former Lagos Governor was on Wednesday morning declared the winner of the election, which was contested by 18 political parties.

He defeated Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party who occupied the second and third places respectively.

Tinubu got 8,794,726 votes from the 24,025,940 total valid votes cast, according to the Chief Returning Officer and Chairman of INEC, Mahmoud Yakubu while declaring the results.

More details later.

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