At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, INEC will give Tinubu the certificate for winning the election Nigeria went to town on Wednesday ...
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, INEC will give Tinubu the certificate for winning the election
Nigeria went to town on Wednesday with Bola Ahmed Tinubu as president-elect, after he won with 8.8 million votes in the election that ended on Saturday.
After announcing the results of the election, the National Electoral Commission (INEC) said that at around 3pm it will hand over the certificate of victory to Tinubu.
The Chairman of INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, said, "Today at three o'clock in the afternoon, the commission will give the winner a certificate of victory."
"Those who are successful in the election of members of the House of Representatives and Senators, later the board will announce the time to give them their certificates."
On Saturday, 25.3 million Nigerians went to the polling booths across the country to elect the president who will lead the country for four years, after the end of the term of the current president, Muhammadu Buhari, who will step down on the 29th. for the month of May.
On that day, the citizens voted for the election of 109 senators and 360 members of the House of Representatives in the country.
18 parties contested in this year's election, where the main parties that are competing are the ruling APC, the main opposition PDP, then the LP party, and the NNPP.
The election is the seventh since Nigeria returned to democracy in 1999.