Nigeria’s ruling occasion candidate Bola Tinubu received the nation’s extremely disputed weekend election Wednesday.
The win secures the previous Lagos governor his life-long ambition of the presidency of Africa’s most populous democracy.
The president-elect defended Wednesday the integrity of the nationwide election and referred to as on residents to unite round him after a bitter dispute over outcomes opposition events have mentioned are flawed.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) mentioned Tinubu garnered 8.79 million votes within the weekend election, forward of essential opposition challenger Atiku Abubakar’s 6.98 million votes.
Peter Obi, an outsider widespread with youthful and extra educated city voters, garnered 6.1 million votes.
A candidate can win a Nigerian election by getting extra votes than their rivals, offered they get 25% of the vote in a minimum of two-thirds of the 36 states and the federal capital Abuja, which Tinubu did.
“I am very happy I have been elected the president of the federal republic of Nigeria,” Tinubu mentioned to cheers in Abuja. “This is a serious mandate. I hereby accept it.”
Nigeria’s election was meant to be its fairest and most open contest so far. But the electoral course of encountered issues, owing to new expertise that didn’t operate effectively and appeared to overwhelm Nigeria’s notoriously insufficient communications community.
INEC had promised to add outcomes from every polling unit to its web site in actual time however most models have been unable to take action instantly, undermining belief within the course of. Thousands of outcomes have nonetheless to be uploaded.
Because of those failings, the primary opposition events of Atiku and Obi have rejected the outcomes as fraudulent.
“I commend INEC for running a credible election no matter what anybody says,” Tinubu mentioned. “The lapses that were reported, they were relatively few in number and were immaterial to affect the final outcome of the election.”
Tinubu now faces a protracted listing of nationwide issues together with Islamist insurgencies within the northeast, armed assaults, killings and kidnappings, battle between livestock herders and farmers, money, gasoline and energy shortages, and deeply entrenched corruption.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
