The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has resumed collation of results for Saturday’s presidential election at the International Conference Centre in Abuja.
Collation resumed at about noon on Monday hours after the electoral body adjourned sitting on Sunday night after announcing the results for Ekiti State.
INEC chairman Mahmood Yakubu, who opened the floor for Day 2 of the national collation on Monday, had announced Sunday night that the adjournment was to enable the state collation officers for the presidential election (SCOPs) in the other 35 states and the Federal Capital Territory to turn in their results.
At the resumed sitting on Monday, collated results from Osun State showed that Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) polled 354,366, All Progressives Congress’ (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu scored 343,945 votes, Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) scored 23,283, while Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) scored 713 votes.
In Kwara, APC polled 263,572 votes, PDP scored 136,909 votes, Labour Party polled 31,166 votes, while NNPP polled 3,141 votes.
In Ondo state, APC scored 369,924 votes, LP 47,350, NNPP 930, and PDP 115,463 votes.
APC also won the presidential election in Ekiti State, according to the results announced by INEC on Sunday.
Speaking after the resumption of collation, Yakubu said the collation centre would be open all day and night, but there would be short breaks in between.
He urged political parties and the media to only draw their figures from INEC.
“I appeal to all political parties and media organisations to draw their figures only from the official results released by the commission as the only body constitutionally responsible for releasing official election figures,” he said.
Nigerians at home and abroad are waiting with bated breath for the final results of the 2023 presidential election in the hope that whoever emerges victorious would undo the damage done to the economy by the Muhammadu Buhari administration in the last eight years.
