•••TINUBU SETS UP COMMITTEE TO HOLD TALKS WITH ATIKU, OBI, KWAKWANSO, OTHERS
The Independent National Electoral Commission has presented certificates of return to the President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Vice President-Elect, Senator Kashim Shettima.
INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu presented the certificates of return to the President-elect at the International Conference Centre in Abuja on Wednesday, March 1, 2023.
In his remarks, Tinubu said that the his victory is for the whole of Nigeria and urged all those whose candidates were not victorious and who are disappointed to accept his offer of unity.
He also called on all his colleagues who contested the election with him to join him in the task to be part of what he called a national historic challenge.
Also, the Governor of Ondo State disclosed that the President elect has set up a committee of top leaders of the All Progressives Congress to interface with the Presidential Candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi respectively, and others .
Both Atiku and Peter Obi have not called the President elect AC they described the election as a sham and a fraud.
The opposition parties who called for the resignation of the INEC Chairman and the conduct of a fresh election said that the election is unacceptable without the electronics transmission if results to the IReV portal which INEC promised Nigerians.
IINEC had declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, as the winner of the 2023 presidential election.
INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmoud Yakubu Mahmood announced the results at the International Conference Centre said he polled 8,794,726 votes, to defeat his closest rival Atiku who polled a total of 6,984,520 votes in the election.
Peter Obi of the Labour Party came third in the election with a total of 6,101,533 votes while Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP came fourth with 1,496,687 votes.
Tinubu won the election in Rivers, Borno, Jigawa, Zamfara, Benue, Kogi, Kwara, Niger, Osun, Ekiti, Ondo, Oyo and Ogun states while Atiku won in Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, Kaduna, Gombe, Yobe, Bauchi, Adamawa and Taraba states. He also won in Osun, Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa states.
Obi who came third won in Edo, Cross River, Delta, Lagos, FCT, Plateau, Imo, Ebonyi, Nasarawa, Anambra, Abia and Enugu states.
The NNPP Candidate, Kwankwaso, asserted his popularity in his native Kano State.
