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Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been declared the winner of the 2023 presidential election. Tinubu, having scored the highest votes in the election, was declared as winner by Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the early hours of Wednesday. The former governor of Lagos State polled the total votes of 8,794,76 to defeat his close rival in the election, Atiku Abubakar of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) with 6,984,520 votes. While the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi came third with 6,101,533 votes.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Labour Party (LP) and African Democratic Congress (ADC) have demanded a fresh election, saying the February 25 presidential election has been “irretrievably compromised”. LP National, Julius Abure; the PDP chairman, Iyorchia Ayu; as well as their ADC counterpart, Ralph Nwosu, made this known at a joint press conference in Abuja on Tuesday. They alleged that Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections were manipulated by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at polling units by their failure to upload results electronically on the commission’s Results Viewing Portal (IReV). Abure, who spoke on behalf of the LP, PDP and the ADC, said, “This election is not free and far from being fair”, adding that there are “ongoing cancellation of results from areas of strength of the opposition parties”. They declared a vote of no confidence on INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu and asked him to immediately step aside for an un