Bola Ahmed Tinubu won the presidential election on Saturday February 25 in Nigeria according to the results announced by the Electoral Commission in the early morning of March 1. At 70, the candidate of the APC, the ruling party, will succeed Muhammadu Buhari who is stepping down after two terms.
Announced as the favorite in the presidential election, Bola Tinubu obtained 8.8 million votes, ahead of his main rivals Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP, 6.9 million votes) and Peter Obi of the Labor Party (6.1 million of voice). Above all, he obtained 25% of the votes in at least two thirds of the 36 states of the federation as well as the territory of the capital Abuja, a necessary condition to be declared the winner in the first round.
“Tinubu Bola Ahmed, of the APC, having satisfied the requirements of the law, is declared the winner and elected”, announced the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja. It was in the early morning of March 1, after a long wait punctuated by accusations of fraud since the end of the ballot last Saturday.
More than 87 million voters were called to ballot boxes on Saturday and the vote, whose participation is not yet known, was generally calm. But many observers have criticized delays in counting and major failures in the electronic transfer of results.
On Tuesday, even before the announcement of the final results, the opposition demanded the annulment of the election, denouncing fraud “massive“. Inec for its part swept aside accusations “unfounded and irresponsible”adding that the candidates were “free to address the courtsx” if they felt aggrieved.
With AFP