Over 72 hours after the February 25 presidential polls closed across Nigeria, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) continues to release results amid deepening controversies which have dogged the process.
The announcement of results began on Sunday, with the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu drawing the first blood. Tinubu won Ekiti state, according to INEC results, defeating his closest rivals, the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi.
On Monday, the electoral commission went further to announce additional 11 states results, bringing the total officially announced results to 14 states on that day.
INEC, today (Tuesday) resumed collation of results for the presidential election.
However, the collation continues despite protests from the PDP, LP and other opposition parties over the failure of the commission to ask its officials to upload the results on the INEC’s IReV portal from the polling units.
They complained about widespread discrepancies in the results of the polls and asked the electoral commission to halt the proceedings at the collation centre and address their complaints. But the electoral body has insisted that results collation must go on.
So far, APC has won Oyo, Ogun, Ekiti, Ondo, Kwara, Niger, Kogi, Jigawa, Zamfara and Benue states as per results announced by INEC.
For the PDP, it has in its kitty Akwa Ibom, Yobe, Adamawa, Gombe, Katsina, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Kaduna, Kebbi, Taraba, Sokoto, and Osun States.
Labour Party has so far won in Lagos, Abia, Enugu, Delta, Edo, FCT, Imo, Plateau and Nasarawa States, while NNPP candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso has recorded victory in Kano state.
From the results collated so far, some of the leading candidates are currently troubled over hitting the required spread of 25 per cent of votes across 24 states and the FCT, including garnering majority of the total vote cast to emerge an outright winner, according to Chapter 6, Part 1, Section 134 of the Nigerian constitution.
The New Diplomat understands that if no candidate meets these criteria, a run-off will be conducted within 21 days, with only two candidates allowed to participate: the one with the highest number of votes in total and the candidate who garnered the required 25 percent votes in more states than any other candidate.
If there are two candidates who meet the second criterion, the candidate with the highest vote tally will be picked to run against the candidate with the majority of the votes in the first round of voting.
Below here are the INEC announced results so far;
Ekiti State
APC: 201,494
PDP: 89,554
LP: 11,397
NNPP: 264
Kwara State
APC: 263,572
PDP: 136,909
LP: 31,166
NNPP: 3,141
Osun State
APC: 343,945
PDP: 354,366
LP: 23,283
NNPP: 713
Ondo State
APC: 369,924
LP: 47,350
NNPP: 930
PDP: 115,463
Ogun State
APC: 341,554
LP: 84,829
NNPP: 2,200
PDP: 123,831
Yobe State
APC: 151,459
LP: 2,406
NNPP: 18,270
PDP: 198,567
Enugu State
APC: 4,772
LP: 428,640
NNPP: 1,808
PDP: 15,749
Lagos State
APC: 572,606
LP: 582,454
NNPP: 8,442
PDP: 75,750
Gombe state
APC: 146,977
LP: 26,160
NNPP: 10,520
PDP: 319,123
Jigawa State
APC: 421,390
LP: 1,889
NNPP: 98,234
PDP: 386,587
Adamawa State
APC: 182,881
LP: 105,648
NNPP: 8,006
PDP: 417,611
Katsina State
APC: 482,283
LP: 6,376
NNPP: 69,386
PDP: 489,045
Nasarawa State
APC: 172,922
LP: 191,361
NNPP: 12,715
PDP: 147,093.
Niger State
APC: 375,183
PDP: 284,898
LP: 80,452
Bauchi state
APC- 316,694
PDP- 426,607
LP- 27,373
NNPP- 72,103
Akwa Ibom
APC: 160,620
PDP: 214,012
LP: 132,683
Bayelsa State
APC:42,572
PDP: 68,818
LP: 49,975
NNPP: 540
Delta State
APC: 90,183
PDP: 161,600
LP: 341,866
NNPP: 3,112
Edo
APC: 144,471
PDP: 89,585
LP: 331,163
NNPP: 2,743
Kaduna
APC: 399,293
PDP: 554,360
LP: 294,494
Kano
APC: 517,341
PDP: 131,716
LP: 28,513
NNPP: 997,279
Kebbi
APC: 248,088
PDP: 288,175
LP: 10,682
NNPP: 5,038
Kogi
APC: 240,751
PDP: 145,104
LP: 56,217
NNPP: 4,238
Sokoto
APC: 285,444
PDP: 288,679
LP: 6,568
NNPP: 1,300
Taraba
APC: 135,165
PDP: 189,017
LP: 146,315
NNPP: 12,818
Zamfara
APC: 298,396
PDP: 193,978
LP: 1,660
NNPP: 4,000
FCT
APC: 90,902
PDP: 74,199
LP: 281,717
NNPP: 13,247
Imo state
APC: 66,171
PDP: 30,440
LP: 352,904
NNPP:1,536
Abia state
APC: 8,914
PDP: 22,676
LP: 327,095
Plateau
APC 307,195
PDP: 243,808
LP: 466, 272
Benue
APC 310,468
PDP: 130,081
LP: 308,372
