Tinubu, nationwide chief of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has gained the favored vote within the disputed election.
Bola Tinubu, the politician lengthy heralded because the “father of contemporary Lagos”, has gained a decent race to succeed Muhammadu Buhari as the following president of Nigeria.
Tinubu, “having happy the necessities of the regulation, is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected”, Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC), introduced early on Tuesday.
Tinubu polled 8.8 million votes to defeat former-associate-turned-foe Atiku Abubakar and shock frontrunner Peter Obi, who scored 6.9 million and 6.1 million, respectively, to emerge president hours after three opposition events referred to as for a cancellation of what they referred to as a “ sham” of an election.
The previous two-term governor of Lagos, seen as essentially the most influential political godfather in present Nigerian historical past, misplaced his dwelling state of Lagos to Obi however was in the end profitable in his bid to develop into Nigeria’s fifth president for the reason that return of democracy in 1999.
His rise to fame started in 1992 when he was elected senator in Lagos. When the presidential elections have been canceled a yr later by the army authorities, he joined a coalition of politicians and civil society to name for brand spanking new elections.
Tinubu’s magnum opus got here in 2015 when his Motion Congress of Nigeria (ACN) merged with Buhari’s Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) to kind the All Progressives Congress (APC) that unseated incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan.
Political pundits speculated it was solely a matter of time earlier than Tinubu launched an try to assert the presidency for himself, ensuing within the “Emi lokan” (Yoruba for “it is my flip”) slogan that got here to outline his marketing campaign.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Individuals’s Democratic Social gathering (PDP), Labor Social gathering (LP) and African Democratic Congress (CDC) had staged a press convention calling for the cancellation of the election outcomes, saying the ballot was a “sham” and merely “vote”. allocation and never collation”.
