The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has postponed collation of the 2023 presidential election results till Monday, February 27, 2023.
The electoral umpire announced the development immediately after the result of the polls in Ekiti was announced by the returning officer for the state.
According to the INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, the postponement was because the results of other states have not arrived Abuja.
Yakubu said collation of results would continue at 11:00am on Monday.
In the Ekiti State result announced, Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Party defeated Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Tinubu secured 201,486 votes to beat Obi and Atiku, who polled 11,397 and 89,554 respectively.
INEC had earlier on Sunday suspended the collation exercise till 6:00 pm.
It later announced that it was having technical challenges with the collation portal.
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