The flag bearer of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has been declared the winner of last Saturday’s presidential election in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
Obi secured 281,717 votes, Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 90,902 votes while Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) got 74,199 votes.
The Labour Party candidate defeated his closes challenger with 19,0815 votes.
A total of 478,923 people were accredited to vote in Abuja, meaning Mr Obi secured about 59 per cent of the votes cast. Neither Mr Tinubu (19 per cent) nor Atiku (15 per cent) scored up to 25 per cent of the votes in the Nigerian capital.
Out of the six area councils in the FCT, the former governor of Anambra state won four while Tinubu won two.