Nigeria held its presidential and parliamentary elections over the weekend and results pouring in places the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu, ahead of candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar, the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Rabiu Kwankwaso.
So far, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced results in 22 states out of which the APC won seven, PDP nine and LP five.
Tinubu has been declared winner in the following states: Ekiti: APC (201,494), PDP (89, 554), LP (11, 397) and NNPP (264) votes; Ogun: APC (341, 554), PDP (123, 831), LP (85,829) and NNPP (2, 200) votes; Oyo: APC (449, 884), PDP (182, 977), LP (99, 110) and NNPP (4, 095) votes and Ondo: APC (369, 924), PDP (115, 463), LP (44, 405) and NNPP (930) votes.
The APC candidate also won Kwara: APC (263, 572); PDP (136, 909); LP (31, 186) and NNPP (3, 141) votes; Benue: APC (310, 468), LP (308, 372), PDP (130, 081) and NNPP (4, 740) votes and Zamfara: APC (298, 396), PDP (193,978), NNPP (4, 044) and LP (1, 660) votes.
Meanwhile, states where the presidential candidate of the PDP has been declared the winner by INEC include: Katsina: PDP (489, 045), APC (482, 283), NNPP (69, 386) and LP (6, 376) votes; Osun: PDP (354, 366), APC (343, 945), LP (23, 283) and NNPP (713) votes; Yobe: PDP (196, 567), APC (151, 459), NNPP (18, 270) and LP (2, 406) votes and Bauchi: PDP (426, 607), APC (316, 694), NNPP (72, 103) and LP ( 27, 373) votes.
Abubakar also won his home state Adamawa: PDP (417, 611), APC (182, 881), LP (105, 648) and NNPP (8006) votes; Gombe: PDP (319, 123), APC (146, 977), LP (26, 160) and NNPP (10, 520) votes; Bayelsa: PDP (68, 818), LP (49, 975), APC (42, 572) and NNPP (540) votes; Sokoto: PDP (288, 679), APC (285, 444), LP (6, 568) and NNPP (1, 300) votes and Kebbi: PDP (285, 175), APC (248, 088), LP (10, 682) and NNPP (5, 038) votes.
Coming third place is is the presidential candidate of the LP who has been declared winner by INEC in the following states: Enugu: LP (428, 640), PDP (15, 749), APC (4, 772), NNPP (1, 808) votes; Lagos: LP (582, 454), APC (572, 606), PDP (75, 750) and NNPP (8, 442) votes and Edo: LP (331, 163) APC (144, 471), PDP (89, 585) and NNPP (2, 743) votes.
Obi also won Nasarawa: LP (191, 361), APC (172, 922) PDP (147, 093) and NNPP (12, 715) votes and Cross River: LP (179, 917), APC (130, 520), PDP (95, 425) and NNPP (1, 644) votes.
NNPP’s Kwankwaso has been declared the winner in his home Kano state after polling a total of 997, 279 votes to edge out his main rival, Tinubu, who secured 517, 341 votes. The PDP polled 131, 716 votes while LP secured 28, 513 votes.
However, opposition parties walked out of the counting process on Monday citing concerns of fraud, as the election has been fraught with logistical and technological challenges.
In many places, officials of the Commission were unable to upload results directly from each polling unit to the IReV portal, resulting in disputes about the manual figures announced at the collation centre in Abuja.
Commonwealth observer mission chief Thabo Mbeki criticised INEC for its failure to upload the results.
“INEC’s lack of efficient planning in critical stages and effective public communication reduced trust in the process,” the European Union observer mission also said in a statement.