According to information gathered from Channels Television, it will interest you to note that the President-Elect, Bola Tinubu on Wednesday was presented the certificate of return as the winner of the 2023 presidential election by INEC. It was gathered that Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC Chairman presented the certificate to Tinubu at the International Conference Center in Abuja, the nation's capital.
It will interest you to note that Kashim Shettima, his running mate also got his certificate of return at the event. Tinubu was declared the winner of the presidential election after he polled a total of 8,794,726 votes to defeat Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, his closet rival who polled a total of 6,984,520 votes.
From the information gathered from Daily Trust and other reliable sources, Bola Tinubu took his first shot at the presidency for the first time in a keenly contested race. The 70-year-old former Lagos Governor came out tops in 12 of Nigeria’s 36 states and secured significant numbers in several other states to claim the highest number of votes.
Another interesting thing that happened during the election was that Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in less than a year, galvanized young voters in a manner some have described as unprecedented finished the race with 6,101,533 coming third position.
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