Nigerian Polls: Ruling Party CandidateTinubu Dominates South West Strongholds
Official results in so far from Nigeria’s presidential election show that ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu is dominating in his strongholds in the south-west.
He has won three states in the region, while marginally losing a fourth to main opposition candidate Atiku Abubakar.
He has won in his south-western strongholds of Ondo, Ekiti and Kwara, narrowly losing toAbubakar of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun state. The results from Ekiti, Kwara, Ondo and Osun have all been confirmed by the head of the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) at its headquarters in the capital, Abuja, however the other results remain provisional.
But delays in getting results from 32 other states and the capital, Abuja, has led to growing frustration.
The electoral commission has apologised for the unresponsiveness of its results viewing page on its website, saying that a surge in usage caused technical hitches.
Abubakar has also narrowly won the presidential election in Katsina, the home state of outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari.
The commission had declared the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, the winner in Ekiti with 201,494 votes, defeating his closest rival Abubakar Atiku of the PDP with 89,554.
Peter Obi of Labour got 11,397 votes while the candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, polled 264 votes.
The PDP agent, Dino Melaye, said his party had observed a discrepancy of an increase of 887 votes in the total number of figures from Ekiti.
The agents of two other political parties – Action Alliance and Labour – agreed with Maleye.
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