That’ll be all for the liveblog. Thank you for sticking with us to the end
04:10
INEC has declared Bola Tinubu of the APC the winner of the 2023 presidential election.
04:04
Final result of the 2023 presidential election
APC – 8,794,726
PDP – 6,984,520
LP – 6,101,533
NNPP – 1,496,687
01:22
We’re now waiting for the final collation of the results and the declaration of the winner.
01:20
To recap, the PDP has won the most number of states with 13, followed by APC with 12, and LP with 11. NNPP ended the contest with only one state won. The APC is leading with the highest number of votes won.
01:11
The results of the 2023 presidential election have now been announced for all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and the National Collation Centre in Abuja.
01:09
Presidential Election Result in Imo State:
APC – 66,406
LP – 360,495 – Winner
NNPP – 1,552
PDP – 30,234
00:47
Presidential Election Result in Rivers State:
APC – 231,591 – Winner
LP – 175,071
NNPP – 1,322
PDP – 88,468
00:36
Presidential Election Result in Borno State:
APC – 252,282 – Winner
LP – 7,205
NNPP – 4,626
PDP – 190,921
00:34
Presidential Election Result in Taraba State:
APC – 135,165
LP – 146,315
NNPP – 12,818
PDP – 189,017 – Winner
22:17
Presidential Election Result in Anambra State:
APC – 5,111
LP – 584,621 – Winner
NNPP – 1,967
PDP – 9,036
22:09
Presidential Election Result in Ebonyi State:
APC – 42,402
LP – 259,738 – Winner
NNPP – 1,661
PDP – 13,503
21:59
Presidential Election Result in Delta State:
APC – 90,183
LP – 341,866 – Winner
NNPP – 3,122
PDP – 161,600
21:48
Presidential Election Result in Cross River State:
APC – 130,520
LP – 179,917 – Winner
NNPP – 1,644
PDP – 95,425
18:50
Presidential Election Result in Sokoto State:
APC – 285,444
LP – 6,568
NNPP – 1,300
PDP – 288,679 – Winner
18:39
Presidential Election Result in Zamfara State:
APC – 298,396 – Winner
LP – 1,660
NNPP – 4,044
PDP – 193,978
18:28
Presidential Election Result in Kano State:
APC – 517,341
LP – 28,513
NNPP – 997,279 – Winner
PDP – 131,716
18:21
Presidential Election Result in Kebbi State:
APC – 248,088
LP – 10,682
NNPP – 5,038
PDP – 285,175 – Winner
18:09
Presidential Election Result in Kaduna State:
APC – 399,293
LP – 294,494
NNPP – 92,969
PDP – 554,360 – Winner
17:54
Presidential Election Result in Bayelsa State:
APC – 42,572
LP – 49,975
NNPP – 540
PDP – 68,818 – Winner
17:46
Presidential Election Result in Plateau State:
APC – 307,195
LP – 466,272 – Winner
NNPP – 8,869
PDP – 243,808
17:46
Presidential Election Result in Bauchi State:
APC – 316,694
LP – 27,373
NNPP – 72,103
PDP – 426,607 – Winner
17:37
Presidential Election Result in Kogi State:
APC – 240,751 – Winner
LP – 56,217
NNPP – 4,238
PDP – 145,104
17:28
Presidential Election Result in Abia State:
APC – 8,914
LP – 327,095 – Winner
NNPP – 1,239
PDP – 22,676
17:20
Presidential Election Result in Edo State:
APC – 144,471
LP – 331,163 – Winner
NNPP – 2,743
PDP – 89,585
17:12
Presidential Election Result in Akwa Ibom:
APC – 160,620
LP – 132,683
NNPP – 7,796
PDP – 214,012 – Winner
17:04
Presidential Election Result in the FCT:
APC – 90,902
LP – 281,717 – Winner
NNPP – 4,517
PDP – 74,194
16:56
Presidential Election Result in Benue State:
APC – 310,468 – Winner
LP – 308,372
NNPP – 4,740
PDP – 130,081
16:43
Presidential Election Result in Niger State:
APC – 375,183 – Winner
LP – 80,452
NNPP – 21,836
PDP – 284,898
16:23
The collation of results is about to kick off once again. There are 17 results ready to be announced. Hopefully, we can be done by the end of today and a winner announced.
14:20
INEC has now postponed the commencement of the result collation today to 3:30 pm. The results of five states are ready to go.
1:16
The PDP, LP and ADC have called on the INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, to step down immediately and allow someone else to conduct a fresh presidential election. They said, “This election is not free, and far from being fair or transparent. We have lost faith in the entire process.”
12:00
INEC has announced that collation will start at 12 pm today.
07:49
It’s Day 3 of the collation of the result of the presidential election that took on Saturday, February 25, 2023. Stay with us to bring you all the live updates from INEC’s National Collation Centre in Abuja.
21:59
The National Collation Centre has announced results from 13 states so far – Tinubu has won six, Atiku has won five, and Obi has won two.
21:57
It’s unclear when INEC will resume collation, but the commission has gone on another break.
21:17
Presidential Election Result in Katsina State:
APC – 482,283
LP – 6,376
NNPP – 69,386
PDP – 489,045 – Winner
21:06
Presidential Election Result in Adamawa State:
APC – 182,881
LP – 105,648
NNPP – 8,006
PDP – 417,611 – Winner
20:55
Presidential Election Result in Jigawa State:
APC – 421,390 – Winner
LP – 1,889
NNPP – 98,234
PDP – 386,587
18:13
Presidential Election Result in Gombe State:
APC – 146,977
LP – 26,160
NNPP – 10,520
PDP – 319,123 – Winner
17:55
The national party agents of A, APC, NRM, NNPP, PRP and YPP have expressed solidarity with INEC to continue the national collation of the result of the presidential election.
17:28
Presidential Election Result in Enugu State:
APC – 4,772
LP – 428,640
NNPP – 1,808
PDP – 15,749
17:15
The national party agents of the PDP, LP and other parties have dissociated themselves from the national collation of the presidential election result in Abuja, and demanded that INEC ‘cancel the process’. INEC will continue the collation.
16:57
Presidential Election Result in Yobe State:
APC – 151,459
LP – 2,406
NNPP – 18,270
PDP – 198,567
16:47
Presidential Election Result in Oyo State:
APC – 449,884
LP – 99,110
NNPP – 4,095
PDP – 182,977
16:38
Presidential Election Result in Ogun State:
APC – 341,554
LP – 85,829
NNPP – 2,200
PDP – 123,831
16:29
INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, has rejected petitions by multiple party agents to suspend the collation of results for 24 hours until they’re viewable on the online platform, IREV. The collation is about to resume with Ogun State’s presidential election result.
16:25
We’re back!
13:10
INEC has suspended the collation of results from other states until further notice. The agency is waiting for more states to present their results.
13:06
Presidential Election Result in Ondo State:
APC – 369,924
LP – 47,350
NNPP – 930
PDP – 115,463
12:55
Presidential Election Result in Osun State:
APC – 343,945
LP – 23,283
NNPP – 713
PDP – 354,366
12:32
Presidential Election Result in Kwara State:
APC – 263,572
LP – 31,116
NNPP – 3,101
PDP – 136,909
12:15
Multiple party agents have rejected INEC’s result of the presidential election in Ekiti. They claimed there was overvoting in the state but chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, said the parties are using inaccurate figures not presented by INEC.
12:06
We’re now live at the national collation centre in Abuja where we’ll get the results of all the states. Stick with us.
11:37
Presidential Election Result in Lagos
APC – 572,606
LP – 582,454
NNPP – 8,442
PDP – 75,750
10:48
Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) has beaten Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State with 582,454 votes.
10:48
Lagos results after 19 LGAs officially announced:
APC – 530,699
LP – 559,064
NNPP – 8,033
PDP – 72,232
10:29
Lagos results after 18 LGAs officially announced:
APC – 510,096
LP – 520,205
NNPP – 7,571
PDP – 68,531
10:20
Good morning. Collation has resumed in Lagos State and the result of Mushin, which was rejected earlier this morning, will be re-presented.
03:47
The collation of votes has been suspended in Lagos until 9 am on Monday. See you in the morning.
03:47
Lagos results after 17 LGAs officially announced:
APC – 447,187
LP – 448,878
NNPP – 6,870
PDP – 60,330
01:45
Bola Tinubu won in Ogun State with 308,839 votes. Peter Obi finished second with 272,269 votes, and Atiku finished third with 43,627 votes.
01:10
Lagos results after 12 LGAs officially announced:
Tinubu – 308,839
Peter Obi – 272,269
Atiku- 43,627
Kwankwaso – 5,008
01:00
Lagos results after 11 LGAs officially announced:
APC – 280,960
LP – 243,333
NNPP – 4,532
PDP – 40,178
23:56
Other states have also been presenting their results at their collation centres.
23:56
We’ve now resumed collation in Lagos State after a break that took more than two hours.
22:07
The Labour Party has rejected the results announced for Badagry and Lagos Mainland LGAs. The party’s agent claimed the result in Badagry didn’t tally with what the party collated from polling unit to polling unit, and also claimed its supporters were disenfranchised in Lagos Mainland.
21:04
Lagos results after eight LGAs officially announced:
APC – 215,442
LP – 118,844
NNPP – 2,919
PDP – 30,368
20:54
Lagos results after six LGAs officially announced:
APC – 153,971
LP – 94,618
PDP – 19,861
NNPP – 1,253
19:12
But the collation of results by local government areas is ongoing in Lagos at the state’s collation centre. We’ll update you on how that proceeds.
19:12
INEC has once again postponed the collation of results until tomorrow, Monday, February 27, 2023.
18:30
Ekiti State
APC 201,494
LP – 11,397
PDP – 89,554
NNPP – 264
18:30
Ekiti State
18:30
Ekiti State
18:30
We’re going to be starting the collation of results in Lagos, where the officials are about to announce the number of votes scored by candidates in all the local government areas.
13:29
INEC has postponed the collation of the result of the 2023 presidential election till 6 pm today.
1:00
We’re ready to go! INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has commenced his opening statement before the collation of results starts.
12:00
INEC has postponed the commencement of the collation of results to 1 pm.
08:32
For a winner to emerge, he must win the highest number of votes and also win at least 25% of the votes in at least 24 states. If this doesn’t happen, there will be a runoff election involving only two candidates – the one who wins the most votes, and the one who wins the highest number of votes in the highest number of states.
08:25
Out of the 93.5 million Nigerians on the register of voters, 87.2 million Nigerians were available to vote with their PVCs, but fingers remain crossed on the turnout rate of the February 25, 2023 election.
08:15
There are 18 presidential candidates on the ballot, but the three frontrunners with strong chances of victory are Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives’ Congress (APC) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP). Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) is also expected to cause an upset, but not enough to win.
08:15
The commission will announce a state-by-state breakdown of the result, so stick with us for all the timely updates on how Nigerians have voted for the country’s next president.
08:15
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will open the National Collation Centre in Abuja by 12 pm today, Sunday, February 26, 2023.
07:46
Welcome to Pulse Nigeria’s coverage of the result collation of the 2023 presidential election.