The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of Saturday’s presidential election.
After receiving 8,794,726 votes in total, the most of any of the 18 contenders, Tinubu was proclaimed the winner, fulfilling the first constitutional condition.
Additionally, he received more than 25% of the votes cast in 30 states, above the constitutional requirement of 25 states.
Atiku Abubakar of the PDP finished in a tie for second place in the election, according to INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu, who made the announcement of the final results early on Wednesday in Abuja.
In the election, Atiku received a total of 6,984,520 votes.
Peter Obi of the Labour Party came third in the election with a total of 6,101,533 votes while Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP came fourth with 1,496,687 votes.
Only the top four candidates won the presidential election in at least one state. Each of Messrs Tinubu, Atiku and Obi won in 12 states while Mr Kwankwaso won only in Kano.
However, winning a majority of states is not a requirement for a candidate to be declared the winner of the election.
Mr Tinubu won the election in Rivers, Borno, Jigawa, Zamfara, Benue, Kogi, Kwara, Niger, Osun, Ekiti, Ondo, Oyo and Ogun states.
Atiku won in Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, Kaduna, Gombe, Yobe, Bauchi, Adamawa and Taraba states. He also won in Osun, Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa states.
Mr Obi won in Edo, Cross River, Delta, Lagos, FCT, Plateau, Imo, Ebonyi, Nasarawa, Anambra, Abia and Enugu states.
Mr Kwankwaso won in only Kano State.