Bola Tinubu, Oluremi Tinubu
President Bola Tinubu has secured a landslide victory in the presidential primary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).Â
He defeated his sole challenger, businessman Stanley Osifo, in the nationwide direct primary conducted across the country’s 8,809 wards.
Going by the results, announced on Sunday by the returning officer of the APC Presidential Primary Election, Pius Anyim, during the collation exercise at the Bola Tinubu International Conference Centre, Abuja, the incumbent president dominating the contest across virtually all states of the federation.
Tinubu polled a total of 10,999, 162 votes, while Mr Osifo secured only 16,503 votes nationwide, recording zero or negligible votes in several states.
Out of a total of 12,643,306 registered voters in the party, 11,069,756 members were accredited for the exercise, while 11,015,665 eventually cast their votes during the nationwide direct primary.
The primary election, held on Saturday, 23 May, was supervised by governors and senior party officials appointed by the APC as state collation officers.
Present at the collation venue were APC governors, members of the National Executive Committee (NEC), National Working Committee (NWC), National Assembly members and other party stalwarts.
The results showed that Mr Osifo failed to secure a single vote in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Delta, Kogi, Ebonyi, Kwara, Borno, Kebbi, Enugu, Kaduna, Ondo, Yobe, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Ekiti, Ogun, Sokoto, Taraba, Cross River, Gombe, Oyo and Osun states.
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