After Final Collation of results from the  General Elections held on Saturday, Feb 25, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmud Yakubu, on Wednesday, March 1 announced Bola Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election.


 Prof Yakubu in the early hours of Wednesday, March 1, declared that Tinubu polled 8,794,726  to defeat his closest rivals, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 6,984,520 and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) who scored 6,101,533.  the winner.


Meanwhile, the INEC chief has also announced that Tinubu will be presented with the Certificate of Return in the latter part of Wednesday, specifically 3pm.