General election: Consolidating democracy through challenges

In the presidential election, in which Sen. Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was declared the winner, 18 political parties contested, including Allied Peoples’ Movement represented by a female candidate, Ms Chichi Ojei.

With 8,794,726 votes Tinubu defeated his closest rivals Atiku Abubakar of the People Democratic Party (PDP), who polled 6,984,520 votes and Peter Obi of Labour Party (LP), who secured 6,101,533 votes.

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