Monday, 27 February 2023 17:08

Tinubu clears Oyo with wide margin

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Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has won the presidential election held in Oyo State.

Tinubu was declared the winner of the election at the state collation centre on Monday.

The election was held across the 33 local government areas in the state on Saturday.

The state collation officer, Olusola Babatunde Kehinde announced the result of the election at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office on Monday.

The collation officer who is also the acting Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, announced that Tinubu scored a total of 449,884 to defeat all other candidates.

He announced that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Abubakar Atiku scored a total of 182,977.

The Labour party candidate, Peter Obi scored a total of 99,110.

The result as announced also showed that ADP got 2,298, APGA got 1,368, APP got 1,985, NNPP got 4,095, Accord got 39,514, SDP got 14,517 and ZLP got 2,707.

 

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