Bola Tinubu polls lowest votes by a Nigerian presidential election winner since 1999 to emerge 16th president
Four days after a hotly contested presidential election in the world’s most populous black nation, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday, March 1, 2023, declared the candidate of the ruling party Bola Tinubu as Nigeria’s president-elect.
Tinubu polled 8,794,726 million votes, the lowest a presidential candidate has ever polled to emerge Nigeria’s president since the country’s return to democracy in 1999.
In 1999, Olusegun Obasanjo polled 18.7 million votes to defeat Olu Falae of the Alliance for Democracy (AD). In 2011, Goodluck Jonathan polled 22.6 million votes to defeat Muhammadu Buhari of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) who polled 12.2 million votes and in 2019, Buhari polled 15 million votes to defeat Atiku Abubakar of the PDP.
