Nigeria elections 2023 results

Nigeria's ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu was ahead in the vote count after Saturday's presidential poll, a Reuters tally of provisional results in 15 of ...

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Results in so far from Nigeria's presidential poll give the ruling party candidate 47% of the vote.

Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi (C) talks to the media at outside a polling station in Amatutu on February 25, 2023, before polls open during ...

Peter Obi still faces an uphill task to secure the required votes in critical states.” “Looking at his performance in the other south west states, the Lagos win reinforces the view that the Obidient movement is still somewhat concentrated among a higher economic class.. Many voters in Lagos complained of intimidation and attempts to suppress their votes. She was knocked to the ground and they smashed her phone.” People were beaten and had their phones smashed. I was hit several times with a chair.

The collation of results in the election that observers and voters say had many logistical challenges is still ongoing.

Officials arrived late and could not get the BVAS, which was being used for the first time at the national level, to work. There is also a wildcard candidate – [Rabiu Kwankwaso](/features/2023/2/1/kwankwaso-went-from-unpopular-governor-to-nigerian-presidential-wildcard) of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP). “This is not what people expected,” Kanyisola said. At the Awada Primary School in the city of Onitsha in the southeastern state of Anambra, more than a thousand people waited more than six hours to be accredited and vote. [Obi won](/news/2023/2/27/nigerias-peter-obi-wins-in-lagos-state-in-presidential-election) in the presidential count for Lagos, which has long been a major stronghold of Tinubu, a former governor of the state. “I am disappointed with the way INEC has conducted this election – it has been poorly conducted and poorly monitored, and there are a lot of irregularities that have led to results manipulation,” Oluwaseyi Elijah, a 26-year-old student, told Al Jazeera in the central Nigerian city of Ilorin.

Nearly 90 million were eligible to vote in the elections to choose a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari, with many hoping for a new leader to tackle ...

Voters stayed overnight to watch over the initial count at polling stations. However, slow uploading of results to INEC’s website has fuelled worries of malpractice in a country with a history of ballot rigging and vote buying. Voting on Saturday was mostly peaceful, but there were some incidents of some polling stations being ransacked.

More than 87 million people were eligible to take part, making it the biggest democratic exercise in Africa.

There are 15 other presidential candidates. The election has seen an unprecedented challenge to the two-party system that has dominated Nigeria for 24 years. •The election has seen an unprecedented challenge to the two-party system that has dominated Nigeria for 24 years.

Peter Obi from the previously little known Labour Party, Bola Tinubu from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition ...

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Results have begun trickling in from Nigeria's presidential election, two days after voters in Africa's biggest democracy went to the polls.

Nigeria's electoral commission has started announcing state-by-state results from Saturday's presidential election.

Early expectations that official results for the entire country could be anticipated starting late on Sunday seem overly optimistic in light of the serious ...

Another accomplishment is that none of the leading contenders are ex-military officials, a first for a Nigerian election. Okoye stated on Sunday that “the commission is aware of challenges… In a statement made at a press conference on Sunday, a coalition representative said, “It gets to the stage where we can no longer accept the excuses of INEC. Follow us on [also read] [World](https://www.firstpost.com/category/world) [Nigeria counts votes after tight election hit by long delays](https://www.firstpost.com/world/nigeria-counts-votes-after-tight-election-hit-by-long-delays-12208462.html) Nigeria is coping with a number of interconnected crises, such as economic instability, extremism, and widespread crime. There are currently no accurate participation statistics, so observers’ opinions on it varied. Analysts point out that some democratic institutions in Nigeria are strengthening and that this is the seventh election since the end of military control in 1999. “No try any result magic.” Early expectations that official results for the entire country could be anticipated starting late on Sunday seem overly optimistic in light of the serious technical issues a newly implemented system by Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has encountered. “Let Nigeria decide O! Early expectations that official results for the entire country could be anticipated starting late on Sunday seem overly optimistic in light of the serious technical issues a newly implemented system by Nigeria's Electoral Commission (INEC) has encountered @inecigeria,” the Nigerian Afrobeats musician winner Burna Boy wrote on Twitter.

Violence, some technology glitches, malpractices and insecurity overshadowed the Nigerian elections, seen as the tightest since the end of military rule in ...

Four candidates were frontrunners in the race to succeed Muhammadu Buhari, president since 2015 but ineligible because of term limits. The poll has been rescheduled for 11 March. The organisation noted that INEC officials were accused of bypassing the use of the BVAS machines for accreditation in some parts of the country, especially in the North East and North West, leading to allegations of thumb-printing and stuffing of ballot boxes. Adejobi called for calm. “The current delay in announcing the results of the presidential election is even raising more suspicion that the INEC has an ulterior motive or is acting a script to produce a particular candidate other than the one voted for by Nigerians,” the CNPP stated. “These desperate governors are allegedly pressuring and blackmailing INEC [Independent National Electoral Commission] officials to manipulate the results and transfer massive votes validly cast for the PDP and its presidential candidate, to the rejected APC and its presidential candidate,” the PDP stated.

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ABUJA, Nigeria -- Nigeria's election commission announced the first results late Sunday from the country's closely watched presidential election, ...

estimates that Nigeria will tie with the United States as the third most populous nation in the world after India and China. After the last presidential election, it took four days for a declaration of victory. Associated Press journalists saw armed men pull up to a voting station in a minibus Saturday, fire shots in the air and grab the presidential ballot box.

Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party who has attained massive support among urban youths, has failed to make inroads into the Muslim ...

That is what we believe will change the continent, and that is what we report on. Results trickling in show that Obi is winning massively in the southeast where he comes from and has also won Lagos. With 15 states out of his reach, Obi is unlikely to have an outright win based on the results as of now, The Africa Report can confirm. We believe that Africa is poorly represented, and badly under-estimated. The electoral commission attributed this to “technical hitches” in a statement. And he asks.

Provisional results from Nigeria's disputed presidential election over the weekend showed Bola Tinubu from the ruling party in the lead, a Reuters tally of ...

Millions of Nigerians vote for di most competitive presidential election since military rule end. Sabi pipo say dis time, na three horse race.

The ruling party's candidate has 44% of tallied votes, but the opposition says counting is flawed.

The PDP representative at the election centre in the capital, Abuja, described the process as fraudulent, and accused the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) of colluding with Inec. [Nigeria Elections 2023](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cqymyxky0xjt) [The man who wants Nigerians to look back to go forward](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47046599) From the results announced so far Mr Tinubu has won the most votes in six states, Mr Abubakar five and Mr Obi three. The Labour Party asked for the announcements to be suspended, or for the election to be cancelled and rerun. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party have claimed there is a lack of transparency with the new electronic voter system.

Ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu led the race for Nigeria's presidency on Tuesday, according to partial official tallies issued after a tight election ...

PDP and other party officials stormed out of the counting centre on Monday night claiming tallies were manipulated. By Tuesday 11:00 GMT, IReV had only uploaded results from 81,867 polling stations or less than half the 176,800 nationwide. Ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu led the race for Nigeria's presidency on Tuesday, according to partial official tallies issued after a tight election marred by frustration over long delays, technical hitches and charges that results have been manipulated. But a surprise third candidate, Labour Party's Peter Obi, appealed to younger voters with a message of change. Buhari, a former army general first elected in 2015, will step down after two terms in office. "We demand that this sham of an election should be immediately cancelled," Abure said.

Counting has been under way since polls closed on Sunday, with the final tally expected within five days.

He has selected Ifeanyi Okowa, the outgoing governor of Delta State in the south and Christian, as his running mate. One big achievement was a significant scholarship scheme that benefitted thousands of students from low-income households in Kano, previously known for its high numbers of the almajirai, out-of-school child beggars. Seen as a wildcard in the race, New Nigerian People’s Party’s (NNPP) Kwankwaso comes with enough experience to match the other frontrunners. He was on the PDP ticket alongside Abubakar in 2019. The outgoing Buhari is a northern Muslim. If no candidate meets these criteria, a run-off will be held within 21 days, with only the top two candidates allowed to participate.

Leading candidates in Nigeria's 2023 presidential election (from left) Bola Tinubu of the ruling APC, Atiku Abubakar of PDP and Peter Obi of Labour Party.

He also noted the system of uploading results needed to be reviewed in real time and communication on the voting and collation process should be enhanced. Meanwhile, also irked by the outcome of the results from its stronghold, APC has called on its restless supporters to be calm and promised to uphold the outcome of the results. “Having observed that INEC chairman is determined to rig the elections by making sure that results are not uploaded, we are not here to rubber stamp the electoral fraud that has been prepared by INEC and the APC,” he said. He added that according to Section 60 of the Nigerian Electoral Act 2022, an election presiding officer is mandated to announce the results at the polling unit in the presence of party agents. According to Onifade, the Amended Electoral Act of Nigeria says that election results were to be uploaded to the central server from the polling units and that the manual collation made no sense. He said that Nigerians swamped the party with calls and protests over INEC’s non-compliance with provisions of the electoral guidelines and the "obvious manipulations of the election results".

All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Tinubu (C-L) and his wife Oluremi Tinubu (C-R) arrive to vote at a polling station in Lagos on ...

APC blasted Obasanjo’s statement as tantamount to “subtly calling” for “a coup against democracy and the constitution.” But the government warned him not to truncate the elections with “his inciting, self-serving and provocative letter on the elections,” in a “The election fell well short of Nigerian citizens’ reasonable expectations,” said a joint observer mission of the International Republican Institute (IRI) and National Democratic Institute (NDI). The election process has been dogged with controversy, and the announcement at the national collation center in Abuja has seen some tense moments, with opposition party members walking out of the collation center as the results were being announced Monday. “We call on the international community to note that the results being declared at the National Collation centre have been heavily doctored and manipulated and do not reflect the wishes of Nigerians expressed at the polls on February 25, 2023,” they said. They said their parties would no longer be part of the ongoing collation process in the capital Abuja and added they had lost confidence in the electoral body Chairman Mahmood Yakubu, said a joint statement from the Peoples Democratic Party, Labour Party, and African Democratic Congress in Abuja on Tuesday.

Early results have put Bola Tinubu from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) well ahead of the main opposition Peoples Democratic party (PDP) candidate, ...

In recent weeks, an effort to replace almost all Nigeria’s banknotes – in part to reduce the widespread practice of vote-buying – has caused massive economic disruption and much popular anger. “Contrary to the insinuation by both parties, results emanating from the states point to a free, fair and credible process,” Inec said in response. This is what the delay is about. It’s not about serving the people, it is about serving the self. If provisional votes yet to be officially declared by Inec were included, Obi would be in second place six points behind the leader. “The election is irretrievably compromised and we have totally lost faith in the entire process,” the Labour party chairman Julius Abure told reporters at a press conference alongside PDP representatives.