In a seeming dissatisfaction by the Nigeria electorates over the outcome of the Saturday, February 25, 2023 Presidential election, there is relative silence nationwide.
\nTrumpeta Newspaper reports that following the announcement of the presidential candidate of the all Progressive Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the President-elect of Nigeria, the public is believed to be uninterested.
\nChairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC Prof Yakubu Mahmood had on the wee hours of Wednesday declared Tinubu winner having polled the highest number of votes and certified the constitutional requirements.
\nAccording to the electoral umpire, Tinubu emerged winner having polled a total of 8,794,726 votes to defeat the other 17 contestants.
\nThe PDP flagbearer, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar came second with 6,984,520 votes.
\nPeter Obi of the Labour Party emerged third with 6,101,533 votes while Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP came fourth with 1,496,687 votes.
\nTinubu was said to have polled over 25 percent of the votes cast in 30 states.
\nAs at press time, INEC had presented him and his vice with the Certificate of Return.
\nAccording to statistics, Tinubu won the election in Rivers, Borno, Jigawa, Zamfara, Benue, Kogi, Kwara, Niger, Osun, Ekiti, Ondo, Oyo and Ogun states.
\nAtiku won in Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, Kaduna, Gombe, Yobe, Bauchi, Adamawa and Taraba states. He also won in Osun, Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa states.
\nMr Obi won in Edo, Cross River, Delta, Lagos, FCT, Plateau, Imo, Ebonyi, Nasarawa, Anambra, Abia and Enugu states.
\nRabiu Kwankwaso won in only Kano State.
\nHowever, while the APC and its supporters celebrate their electoral victory, the PDP and the LP have called for the cancellation of the results.
\nThe PDP and LP made their positions known at a Tuesday press conference attended by their vice-presidential candidates, Ifeanyi Okowa and Datti Baba-Ahmed, respectively.
\n\u201cThe election was a sham, and never free and fair,\u201d said Mr Okowa of the PDP, a position corroborated by the LP\u2019s vice-presidential candidate.
\nTheir main grouse is that INEC failed to upload the results of elections in the over 170,000 polling units onto a central server (IReV) as required by law. That step should have been done before the collation and announcement of results, they said.
\nAt the press conference, the two parties also demanded that the chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, must step aside over what they described as electoral irregularities and malfeasance. INEC has since replied, saying its chairman would not resign and that any party aggrieved with the election process should follow the law to air its grievances.
\nNigerians through the social media channels have expressed dismay over the conduct of the election.
\nRecall that throughout the campaign to election date, all support was being attributed to Mr Peter Obi and his running mate, Baba Ahmad Datti.
\nObi’s wide acceptance crossed above board, especially among the youths who strongly believed he is the right man for the presidential job.
\nSurprisingly, he lost to Tinubu.
\nEven as Tinubu has been declared winner, majority of people still have the feeling something positive would happen.
\nFeelers have it that both Atiku and Obi May approach a Law Court to challenge the outcome of the election and its subsequent declaration.
\nFinal Result Of The 2023 Presidential Election As Presented By The INEC Chairman At The Collation Centre On Wednesday 1st March, 2023
\nTOTAL REGISTERED VOTERS 93,469,008
\nACCREDITED VOTERS 25,286,616
\nA 61,014
\nAA 14,542
\nAAC 14,608
\nADC 81,919
\nADP 43,924
\nAPC 8,794,726
\nAPGA 61,966
\nAPM 25,961
\nAPP 12,839
\nBP 16,156
\nLP 6,101,533
\nNNPP 1,496,687
\nNRM 24,869
\nPDP 6,984,520
\nPRP 72,144
\nSDP 80,267
\nYPP 60,600
\nZLP 77,665
\nTOTAL VALID VOTES 24,025,940
\nTOTAL REJECTED VOTES: 939,278
\nTOTAL VOTE CAST 24,965,218<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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