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The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has so far uploaded 161,624 results from 176, 846 polling units, eight days after the presidential poll.
The figure represents 92 percent of results from all the polling units.
As of the time of filing this report, the electronic transmission of results was still ongoing.
Nigerians expected that the election results would be uploaded on election day as promised by the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu.
However, INEC came under fire for its failure to upload results to its viewing portal which led to the walkout of some party agents on Monday at the National Collation Centre.
Checks by our correspondent on Sunday revealed that the results of all the polling units were yet to be uploaded on the INEC website.
According to the Commission, BolaTinubu, the candidate for the ruling All Progressives Congress, won 8.8 million votes, while main opposition candidates Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi had 6.9 million and 6.1 million, respectively.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that INEC was established in 1998 and is the electoral body which oversees elections in Nigeria.
On February 25th, 2023, INEC also organised the presidential and national assembly elections, which many said were characterised by wide-spread rigging, buying of votes, stealing of ballot boxes, even killings.
Most Nigerians rejected the results that were announced which declared the ex-governor of LAGOS state Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu of the APC as the President.
INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, declared him a winner and a Certificate of Return, CoR, has been presented to him and his running mate, Kashim Shettima.