Tinubu leads in 8 states with 6.3 million votes, Atiku wins 9 states, polling 4,758,962

• Obi with 3,035,529 wins in 4 states

Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in last Saturday’s presidential election, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is so far leading with 6,300,834 votes according to results so far announced at the National Collation Centre in Abuja and as declared in 18 states collation centres across the country.

Tinubu is leading in eight states, ahead of Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who has so far polled 4,758,962 votes, winning in nine states. The Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi, is currently in the third position with 3,035,529 and has won in four states.

The candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, led in his home state (Kano) with 1,358,377 according to the collated results.

The 22 states where results have been collated so far are Adamawa, Kwara, Jigawa, Yobe, Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Ekiti, Akwa Ibom, Enugu, Nasarawa, Lagos, Gombe, Niger, Kano, Benue, Plateau, Bayelsa, Bauchi, Kebbi and Kaduna states.

A report by Daily Trust says an analysis of the results indicates that Tinubu is leading in eight states namely: Kwara, Jigawa, Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, Ekiti and Benue and Niger.

Similarly, Atiku is having the upper hand in Adamawa, Yobe, Osun, Akwa Ibom, Gombe, Bayelsa, Kebbi, Bauchi and Kaduna states; while Peter Obi is leading in Enugu, Nasarawa, Lagos and Plateau.

Daily Trust reports that at the commencement of collation on Monday, INEC announced the result for Ekiti State which was won by Tinubu.

At the resumed collation on Monday, the electoral empire certified the victories of Tinubu in Kwara and Ondo states, as well as that of Atiku.

INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu received the collated results from the collation officers led by the Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) from the states.

Prof. Paul Annune who is the state returning officer in Kwara, said APC’s Tinubu won in all the 16 local government areas of the state.

Annune, who is the Vice Chancellor of Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University, Makurdi, Benue State, said Asiwaju polled 263,572 while Atiku followed with 136,909 votes.

Obi scored 31,166 votes to come third while Kwankwaso scored 3,141 votes.

In the same vein, the Osun State returning officer and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Folasade Ogunsola, announced that Atiku won in the state.

She said while Atiku polled 354,366, Tinubu scored 343,945, Obi garnered 23,283 and Kwankwaso recorded 713 votes, respectively.

Prof. Ogunsola said a total of 756,744 votes were cast, with a total of 733,203 considered valid votes while 23,541 votes were rejected.

For the third state announced on Monday, the Ondo State returning officer and Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Prof. Abayomi Sunday Fashina, said Tinubu won the state with 369,924.

He said Atiku came second with 115,463, while Obi came third with 47,350.

He added that the total number of registered voters was 1,991,344 while the total number of accredited voters was 571,402.

He said the total number of valid votes was 551,008, rejected votes 19,009 and the total vote cast was 570,017.

He said the cancelled results were in four local government areas with 11 polling units PUs and 5,363 registered voters.

Bayelsa

In Bayelsa, Atiku polled 68, 818 votes to defeat Obi who scored 49, 975 votes to come second.

Tinubu scored 42, 572 votes to come third in the state as announced by the returning officer and Vice-Chancellor, University of Benin, Prof Lilian Salami.

Kebbi

In Kebbi, Atiku was also declared the winner after polling 288,175 votes to defeat Tinubu who got 248,088 votes.

Obi polled 10,682 votes while the NNPP recorded 5,038 votes.