Published 28th Feb, 2023

By Sodeeq Atanda

The just-concluded presidential election saw four frontrunners leading the pack of 18 political parties that fielded candidates.

In line with Section 134, Subsection 2 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, none of the candidates will be deemed elected unless he has secured “not less than one-quarter of the votes cast” in two-thirds of Nigerian states and the FCT.

By “one-quarter of the votes cast”, the provision explicitly requires either of Peter Obi of the Labour Party, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party to score 25% of votes in at least 24 states.

To determine a winner that would govern the country for the next four years, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) commenced the process of collation and tabulation at its national collation centre in Abuja on Sunday.

Results collated from more than 18 states and the FCT have been announced by the electoral umpire.

Going by the official results, each of the candidates has got the following percentages:

STATE	APC	LP	NNPP	PDP
Yobe	40.3% [151,459]	0.63% [2,406]	4.83%	52.48% [198,567]
Enugu	1.05% [4,772]	93.91% [428,640]	0.4%	3.45% [15,749]
Ogun	56% [341,554]	14% [85,829]	0.35% [2,200]	20% [123,831]
Ekiti	65.38% [201,494]	3.70% [11,397]	0.9%	29.06% [89,554]
Lagos	46.198% [572,606]	47% [582,454]	0.68%	6.112% [75,750]
Gombe	28.8% [146,977]	5.1% [26,160]	2.1%	62.2% [319,123]
Adamawa	25% [182,881]	14.5% [105,648]	1.1%	57.2% [417,611]
Katsina	45.6% [482,283]	0.6% [69,386]	6.6% [6,376]	46.2% [489,045]
Ondo	64.897% [369,924]	8.306% [47,350]	–	20.26% [115,463]
Jigawa	45.8% [421,390]	0.2% [1,889]	10.7%	42.0% [386,587]
Nasarawa	31% [172,922]	34% [191,361]	2.28% [12,715]	26% [147,093]
Benue	36.95 [310,468]	36.95% [308,372]	0.56% [4,740]	15.48% [130,081]
Bauchi	35.88% [316,694]	3.10% [27.373]	8.17% [72,103]	48.34% [426.607]
Kaduna	28.49% [399,293]	21.01% [294,494]	6.63% [92,969]	39.56% [554,360]
Bayelsa	24.59% [42,572]	28.87% [49,975]	0.31% [540]	39.75% [68,818]
Ebonyi	12.56% [42,402]	77% [259,738]	0.49% [1,661]	4% [13,503]
Delta	13.77% [90,183]	52% [341,866]	0.47% [3,122]	27% [161,600]
Abuja	18.98% [90,902]	59% [281,717]	–	15% [74,199]
Osun	45% [343,945]	3% [23,283]	–	47% [354,366]
Rivers	41.8% [231,591]	31.6% [175,071]	–	15.9% [88,468]
Cross River	29.55% [130,520]	40.7% [179,917]	0.4% [1,644]	21.6% [95,425]
Imo	14% [66,171]	75% [352,904]	0.3% [1,536]	6% [30,044]
Kano	29.6% [517,341]	1.6% [28,513]	57% [997,279]	7.5% [131,716]
Borno	51% [252,282]	1.44% [7,205]	0.9% [4,626]	38% [190,921]
Niger	46% [375,183]	9.9% [80,452]	2.7% [21,836]	35% [284,898]
Abia	2.3% [8,914]	85.69% [327,095]	–	6% [22,676]
Anambra	0.8% [5,111]	93.59% [584,621]	0.31 [1,967]	1.44% [9,036]
Kogi	50.57% [240,751]	11.8% [56,217]	0.89% [4,238]	30.48% [145,104]
Plateau	28% [307,195]	42%[466,272]	0.8% [8,869]	22% [243,808]
Zamfara	57% [298,396]	0.3% [1,660]	0.78% [4,044]	37% [193,978]
Taraba	26% [135,165]	28% [146,315]	2% [12,818]	37% [189,017]
Kwara	53% [263,572]	6.27% [31,166]	0.63% [3,141]	28% [136,909]
Akwa Ibom	27% [160,620]	22.58% [132,683]	–	36.43 [214,012]
Edo	24% [144,471]	55% [331,163]	0.45 [2,743]	15% [89,858]
Kebbi	42% [248,088]	1.8% [10,682]	0.85% [5,038]	48% [285,175]
Sokoto	46.9% [285,444]	1.08% [6,568]	0.2% [1,300]	47% [288,679]
Oyo	50.8% [449,884]	11.6% [99,110]	0.48% [4,095]	21% [182,977]