The results of last Saturday's Presidential Election which was won by the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has shown that the number of invalid votes or total rejected votes is far higher than the combined votes of 14 other candidates in the election.
While Tinubu emerged winner of the election having polled 8, 794, 726 votes, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP got 6,984,520.
Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party LP, Mr Peter Obi scored 6,101,533 votes; while the candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party NNPP, Engr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso garnered 1, 496, 687.
Of the 25,286,616 voters accredited for the election, the votes of 939,278 Nigerians were declared invalid. The combined votes of the 14 other candidates stand at 568, 207.
Below are the figures:
Registered Voters: 93,469,008
Accredited Voters: 25,286,616
1. Christopher Imumolen - Accord A : 61,014
2. Hamza al-Mustapha - Action Alliance AA : 14,542
3. Omoyele Sowore - African Action Congress AAC : 14,608
4. Dumebi Kachikwu - African Democratic Congress ADC: 81,919
5. Sani Yusuf - Action Democratic Party ADP : 43,924
6. Bola Tinubu - All Progressives Congress APC : 8,794,726
7. Peter Umeadi - All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA: 61,966
8. Ojei Chichi - Allied Peoples Movement APM: 25,961
9. Nnadi Osita - Action Peoples Party APP: 12,839
10. Adenuga Oluwafemi - Boot Party BP: 16,156
11. Peter Obi - Labour Party LP: 6,101,533
12. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso New Nigeria Peoples Party NNPP: 1,496,687
13. Okwudili Anyajike - National Rescue Movement NRM: 24,869
14. Atiku Abubakar - Peoples Democratic Party PDP: 6,984,520
15. Kola Abiola - Peoples Redemption Party PRP: 72,144
16. Adebayo Adewole - Social Democratic Party SDP: 80,267
17. Malik Ado-Ibrahim - Young Peoples Party YPP: 60,600
18. Daniel Nwanyanwu - Zenith Labour Party ZLP: 77,665
TOTAL VALID VOTES: 24,025,940
TOTAL REJECTED VOTES: 939,278
TOTAL VOTES CAST: 24,965,218
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