Shortly After INEC Declared The Nigerian Ruling Party’s
Monrovia- The President of Liberia, H.E. Dr. George Manneh Weah has extended heartfelt congratulations to Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who has been declared winner of Nigeria’s presidential elections. The poll was said to be the most closely fought in the country’s history, an Executive Mansion said in a statement on Wednesday, March 1, 2023.
Tinubu, the candidate of the ruling All Progressive Congress, garnered a majority of the votes over his rivals including former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar and former Governor, Peter Obi. President Weah has said he looks forward to working with the newly elected Nigerian leader in order to strengthen the bond of friendship that exists between both countries.
The Liberian President urged all Nigerians to maintain the peace of their nation during such a huge democratic exercise.
He commended outgoing President Mahammadu Buhari for presiding over the organization of the democratic process.
Nigeria Poll Results – Ruling Party’s Tinubu Declared Winner
SOURCE: Nigeria’s Premium Times
Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has declared Bola Tinubu, the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), as the winner of the presidential election held on February 25, 2023, Premium Times reports.
Tinubu, who defeated 17 other candidates, scored a total of 8,794,726 votes, the highest of all the candidates, thus meeting the first constitutional requirement to be declared the winner. He also scored over 25% of the votes cast in 30 states, more than the 24 states constitutionally required.
His main rivals were Atiku Abubakar from the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi from the Labour Party (LP).
Meanwhile, former president Olusegun Obasanjo has urged the country’s electoral body to save the country from “a looming danger” over what he described as corruption of the electoral process. He said INEC’s decision to revert to the manual transmission of results was deliberate, despite investing in an electronic system that would allow immediate transmission of results from polling units.
The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party have claimed there is a lack of transparency with the new electronic voting system and staged a walkout at the National Collation Centre in Abuja.
INEC’s chairman Professor Mahmood Yakubu assured the Nigerian people that the process of collation and announcement would be transparent, even as INEC explained that the challenges the commission was encountering with the transmission of results were not due to sabotage of its system.