BREAKING: Tinubu Floors Osinbajo, Amaechi, Wins APC Presidential Primary [FULL RESULTS]

 

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu has emerged the presidential candidate of the party with a landslide victory at the primaries held at the Eagles Square Abuja.

 

Tinubu polled 1, 271 votes to beat the closest challenger, Rotimi Amaechi, former Minister of Transportation who got 316 votes , and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo who scored 235 to second and third place respectively.

 

The former Lagos State governor gained ground after fellow contestants, Governors Kayode Fayemi, Abubakar Badaru, and ex-Governor Ibikunle Amosun, among others stepped down for him on Tuesday night.

 

Meanwhile, former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has alleged rigging of the election process.

 

2,322 delegates from 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) voted at the APC presidential primaries.

 

 

SEE THE RESULTS BELOW:

 

Bola Ahmed Tinubu 1, 271

 

Rotimi Amaechi 316

 

Yemi Osibanjo 235

 

Ahmed Lawan 152

 

Yahaya Bello 47

 

Dave Umahi 38

 

Ben Ayade 6

 

Ahmed Sani 4

 

Nwajiuba Chukwuemeka 1

 

Tunde Bakare 0

 

Rochas Okorocha 0

 

Void Votes 6

 

Tinubu made his debut in politics as an activist in the pro-democracy agitations of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) in the early 1990s.

 

The 70-year-old was instrumental to the formation of the APC in 2013, and the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari as president in 2015.

 

His main challengers in the 2023 polls have been identified as Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP).