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    2023 Election: Presidential Results of Nigerian states and FCT

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    Tinubu, Atiku, Kwankwaso, Obi- Straightnews
    Tinubu, Atiku, Kwankwaso, Obi
    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced results of 36 Nigerian states including Federal Capital Territory, Abuja of all the candidates who slugged during last Saturday’s Presidential election.

    A total of 18 presidential candidates contested the election which was held across the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, on Saturday.

    The election was postponed till Sunday in some polling units in different states due to violence, logistical problems, theft of BVAS and other issues.

    But the election has been largely concluded across the 36 states and 774 local government areas in the country.

    One of these candidates will replace President Muhammadu Buhari on May 29, 2023 despite the fact that 14 political parties have performed below expectation in the election.

    They are Atiku Abubakar of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Peter Obi of Labour Party (LP) and Rabiu Kwankwaso of New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP).

    The INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, who presides over the proceedings at the National Collation Centre, is the Chief Returning Officer of the presidential election. He will make the announcement of the final results and declare the winner of the election after taking the results of the elections from the polling units across the country.

    This year’s general election is the seventh since the restoration of democracy in the country. The previous elections were held in 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019 respectively.

    EKITI STATE

    APC – 201,494

    PDP – 89,554

    LP – 11,397

    NNPP – 264

    OSUN STATE

    APC – 343,945

    LP – 23,283

    PDP – 354,366

    NNPP – 713

    KWARA STATE

    APC 263,572

    LP 31,116

    NNPP 3,141

    PDP 136,909

    ONDO STATE

    APC 369,924

    LP 4,405

    NNPP 930

    PDP 115,463

    OGUN STATE

    APC: 341,554

    PDP: 123,831

    NNPP: 2,200

    LP: 85, 829

    OYO STATE

    APC: 449,884

    PDP: 182,977

    NNPP: 4,095

    LP: 99,110

    YOBE STATE

    APC: 151,459

    PDP: 198,567

    NNPP: 18,270

    LP: 2,406

    ENUGU STATE

    APC: 4,772

    PDP: 15,749

    NNPP: 1,808

    LP: 428,640

    LAGOS STATE

    APC: 572,606

    PDP: 75,750

    NNPP: 8442

    LP: 582,454

    GOMBE STATE

    APC: 146,977

    PDP: 319,123

    NNPP: 10,520

    LP: 26,160

    JIGAWA STATE

    APC: 421,390

    PDP: 386,587

    NNPP: 98,234

    LP: 1,889

    ADAMAWA STATE

    APC: 182,881

    PDP: 417,611

    NNPP: 8,006

    LP: 105,648

    KATSINA STATE

    APC: 482,283

    PDP: 489,045

    NNPP: 69,386

    LP: 6,376

    NASARAWA STATE

    APC: 172,922

    PDP: 147,093

    NNPP: 12,715

    LP: 191,361

    NIGER STATE

    APC: 375,183

    PDP:284,898

    NNPP:21,836

    LP:80,452

    BENUE STATE

    APC: 310,468

    PDP: 130,081

    NNPP: 4,740

    LP: 308,372

    FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY (FCT), ABUJA

    APC: 90,902

    PDP: 74,194

    NNPP: 4,517

    LP: 281,717

    AKWA IBOM STATE

    APC: 160,620

    PDP: 214,012

    NNPP: 7,796

    LP: 132,683

    EDO STATE

    APC: 144,471

    PDP: 89,585

    NNPP: 2,743

    LP: 331,163

    ABIA STATE

    APC: 8,914

    PDP: 22,676

    NNPP: 1,239

    LP: 327,095

    KOGI STATE

    APC: 240,751

    PDP: 145,104

    NNPP: 4,238

    LP: 56,217

    BAUCHI STATE

    APC: 316,694

    PDP: 426,607

    NNPP: 72,103

    LP: 27,373

    PLATEAU STATE

    APC: 307,195

    PDP: 243,808

    NNPP: 8,869

    LP: 466,272

    BAYELSA STATE

    APC: 42,572

    PDP: 68,818

    NNPP: 540

    LP: 49,975

    KADUNA STATE

    APC: 399,293

    PDP: 554,360

    NNPP: 92,969

    LP: 294,494

    KEBBI STATE

    APC: 248,088

    PDP: 285,175

    NNPP: 5,038

    LP: 10,682

    KANO STATE

    APC: 517,341

    PDP: 131,716

    NNPP: 997,279

    LP: 28,513

    ZAMFARA STATE

    APC: 298,396

    PDP: 193,978

    NNPP: 4044

    LP: 1,660

    SOKOTO STATE

    APC: 285,444

    PDP: 288,679

    NNPP: 1,300

    LP: 6,568

    CROSS RIVER STATE

    APC 130,520

    PDP 95,425

    NNPP 1,644

    LP 179,917

    DELTA STATE

    APC 90,183

    PDP 161,600

    NNPP 3,122

    LP 341,866

    EBONYI STATE

    APC: 42,402

    PDP: 13,503

    NNPP: 1,661

    LP: 259,738

    ANAMBRA

    APC: 5,111

    PDP: 9,036

    NNPP: 1,967

    LP: 584,621

    BORNO STATE

    APC: 252,282

    PDP: 190,921

    NNPP: 4626

    LP: 7,205

    RIVERS STATE

    APC: 231,291

    PDP: 88,468

    NNPP: 1,322

    LP: 175,071

    IMO STATE

    APC:  66,406

    PDP: 30,234

    NNPP: 1,552

    LP:  360,495

    TARABA STATE

    APC: 135,165

    PDP: 189,017

    NNPP: 12,818

    LP:  146,315

    Candidates                                                                                                                              Votes

    Bola Tinubu                                                                                                                                      36.75%
                                                                                                                                                        4,105,663
    Atiku Abubakar                                                                                                                               29.35%
                                                                                                                                                        3,052,625
    Peter Obi                                                                                                                                            24.48%
                                                                                                                                                        1,640,124
    Rabiu Kwankwaso                                                                                                                         6.68%
                                                                                                                                                       238,724
    On 25% from FCT, Abuja
    To win in the first round, a candidate must get a majority of the vote and over 25% of the votes for two-thirds of the 36 states and Federal Capital Territory (Abuja).

    A senior advocate of Nigeria, Emeka Ozoani (SAN) on Tuesday evening, said a candidate cannot legally and constitutionally be declared the winner of the presidential Election if he or she fails to win the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

    “Any presidential candidate who did not win Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, cannot legally and constitutionally be declared the winner of the presidential Election. The only available path to INEC is to call for a fresh nomination.

    “Section 133(b), last paragraph of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended attests to this,” the SAN said.

    But, a critical analysis of Section 133(b) of the 1999 Constitution as amended on the declaration of a winner in a presidential election said “the only interpretation to be founded on Section 133 (b) of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended is to the effect that for a candidate to be qualified to the office of the president, ‘he has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two-thirds of all states in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja but where the only candidates fail to be elected in accordance with this section, then there shall be fresh nominations’.

    “The interpretation of and is in issue. We submit that the word, ‘AND’ means ‘Conjunctive’, ‘in addition’, ‘together with’, ‘plus’. See Webster’s Universal Dictionary and Thesaurus, Bedded and Grosset, P. 31. Also, ‘AND’ means, ‘generally, a cumulative sense, requiring the fulfillment of all the conditions that it joins together and herein, it is the antithesis of ‘OR’. See Stroud’s judicial dictionary of words and phrases, Seventh edition, VOL. 1, Daniel Greenberg, London Sweet and Maxwell, 2006, P 128.

    “In BUHARI V INEC, (2008) 19 NWLR (PT 1120) P, 246 at 368, paras A-D, the Supreme court, In interpreting section 146 of the Electoral Act, 2006 held that the word ‘AND’ is CONJUCTIVE and not DISJUNCTIVE like ‘OR’. See also NDOMA-EGBA v CHUKWUOGOR (2004) 6 NWLR (PT 969)382.

    “Further, the word ‘AND’ in SECTION 135(1) OF THE ELECTORAL ACT, 2002, the Court of Appeal, per Salami, J.C.A (as he then was) in YUSUF v OBASANJO (2005) 18 NWLR (PT. 956) 96 AT 178 held that the word ‘AND’ should be read CONJUNCTIVELY and not DISJUNCTIVELY.
    See also, SASEGBON’S JUDICIAL DICTIONARY OF NIGERIAN LAW. VOL. 1, P. 309. The Federal Capital Territory Abuja is one of the states of the Federation by Section 299 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended.

    “Therein, it is stated,’ the provisions of this constitution shall apply to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja as if it were one of the states of the Federation and accordingly…’ In BABA-PANYA V PRESIDENT, FEDERAL REPUBLIC of NIGERIA (2018) 15 NWLR (pt 1643) 395, the Court of Appeal, per Akomolafe- Wilson, J.C.A, held that ‘by virtue of Section 299 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended, the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, IS A STATE.

    “Also, in OKOYODE v F.C.D.A., (2005) VOL. 27 WRN, P. 97, the Court of Appeal, per ALAGOA, J.C.A at p. 149, lines 40- 45, held inter alia, ‘Section 299 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended, has clear and unambiguous provisions to the effect that the Federal Capital Territory, ABUJA IS IN LAW A STATE,” Ozoani added.

     

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