President Bola Tinubu has emerged the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate after beating Stanley Osifo.
Recall that the APC conducted its presidential primaries across 8,809 wards nationwide, and the president defeated his lone challenger with 10.99 million votes against 16,504.
This emerged from the ongoing national collation of the presidential primaries results at the President Bola Tinubu International Conference Centre in Abuja.
APC governors from 31 states, alongside other party leaders serving as state coordinators and collation officers, submitted the results of the direct primaries to the Presidential Primary Election Committee chaired by former Senate President Pius Anyim.
Meanwhile, Osifo recorded notable figures in some states, including Niger with 5,248 votes, Kano with 2,675, Lagos with 1,186, Abia with 1,007, Oyo with 929, Benue with 779, and Nasarawa with 768.
In contrast, President Tinubu won 100 percent of the votes across all 36 states, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
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BACKSTORY…
The president and his wife, Oluremi Tinubu, cast their votes at his ward in Ikoyi, Lagos State, joining millions of party members to exercise their civil rights.
After the election, Tinubu said the people sustain democracy, not noise or borrowed platforms.
On a tweet on his official handle, he wrote, “Today, I participated in the APC Presidential Direct Primary at my ward in Ikoyi, Lagos, alongside my dear wife, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, CON.”
“Democracy is not sustained by noise, speculation, or borrowed platforms. It is sustained by citizens who show up, party members who believe, institutions that endure, the grassroots, and a political family rooted in the people.”
Following this, the All Progressives Congress (APC) will present President Bola Ahmed Tinubu with the party’s flag and certificate of return as its 2027 presidential candidate.
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