Nigeria National elections 2023 results today

Nigeria has announced some early results from national elections on Sunday, though a victor in the race to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari is not ...

“They want to reassure citizens that there is no malfeasance at play here, that this is only a technical glitch. Some states are must-wins. To win the presidency, a candidate must get the most votes but also win at least 25 percent of votes cast in two-thirds of Nigeria’s 36 states. “People are tense, they want to get those results, they want to know who the next leader of this country is going to be at such a crucial time.” “It will be a disservice to Nigerians and a negation to democracy for anyone to subvert the will of the people as freely expressed in their votes of yesterday,” he said in a statement. “The commission wishes to assure Nigerians that the challenges are not due to any intrusion or sabotage of our systems,” it said in a statement.

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.

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“INEC must understand that not uploading the results to its Server expeditiously as expected creates avoidable crisis of confidence and imperils the entire process. “This is avoidable and it is only by allowing the sovereign will prevail that we can guarantee national peace. We warn INEC and others not to allow this election to degenerate into a national security crisis. Akeem Lasisi, said APC scored a total of 201,494 votes, while Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) scored 89,554 votes. The Labour Party’s candidate, Peter Obi, on the other hand, garnered 11,397 votes and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) polled 264 votes. The former vice president polled 489,045 votes while Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), scored 482,283 votes. There were a total of 79,917 registered voters. Out of a total of 178,654 registered voters, only 40, 347 voters were accredited. The APC got 96 votes. PDP scored 2,477 votes and Labour got 202 votes. It is indeed not unusual for glitches to occur and be corrected in such situations. There are five more local governments to go.