The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, leads other candidates in the collation of the votes garnered by the candidates nationwide in the last Saturday’s presidential election. He polled 8,805,420 votes.
A tally of the votes announced by electoral officials from the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory at the national collation centre in Abuja showed him leading his closest challenger, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, with no fewer than 1.8 million votes.
Atiku, at second, polled 6,984,290 votes while Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi, was third with 6,093,962 votes. The trio won in 12 states each.
In the South-West, although Tinubu lost Lagos State, considered his strongest fort, to LP candidate and Osun State to his PDP counterpart, the 70-year-old won in Oyo State with 449,884 votes, Ondo 369,924, Ekiti 201,494 and Ogun 341,554.
He also won in northern states like Kwara 263,572, Jigawa 421,390, Zamfara 298,396, Borno 252,282, Benue 310,468, Kogi 240,751, Niger 375,183.
Also he won in Rivers State with 231,591 votes.
Meanwhile, Atiku polled most of the votes in the North, winning Kaduna with 554,360 votes, Sokoto 288,679, Adamawa 417,611, Osun 354,366, Gombe 319,123, Yobe 198,567, Katsina 489,045, Taraba 189,017, Bayelsa 68,818, Akwa Ibom 214,012, among others.
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