{"id":103380,"date":"2023-03-01T07:06:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T06:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=103380"},"modified":"2023-03-01T07:06:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T06:06:56","slug":"breaking-inec-declares-bola-tinubu-as-nigerias-president-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-inec-declares-bola-tinubu-as-nigerias-president-elect\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: INEC declares Bola Tinubu as Nigeria\u2019s President-elect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1759139938816399790\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has declared the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the President-elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu said at about 4.10 am Wednesday that as the chief returning officer for the presidential election, he certified the election that was contested on Saturday February 25.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">After giving a breakdown of the figures polled by each of the 18 presidential candidates, he declared Tinubu elected as Nigeria\u2019s president having satisfied the requirements of the law.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The keenly contested presidential election concluded with official results from 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja finally compiled in the early hours of Wednesday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to him, Tinubu\u2019s APC won with 8,794 726, PDP came second with 6,984,520, and Labour Party 6,101,533 while NNPP scored 1,490 687 according to results presented by state collation officers for the presidential election (SCOPs) before the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, at the National Collation Centre in Abuja,\u00a0 from 36 states and the FCT.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to Section 134 of the Nigerian Constitution, a presidential candidate can only be announced as the winner if he or she has the majority of votes cast at the election; and has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election in at least two-thirds of all the States in the Federation and the FCT.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Sub-section 3 of the same section states explicitly that \u201cin default of a candidate duly elected in accordance with subsection (2) of this section there shall be a second election\u201d.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has declared the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the President-elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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