{"id":710,"date":"2023-03-01T03:35:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T03:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=710"},"modified":"2023-03-01T03:35:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T03:35:25","slug":"inec-declares-ahmed-tinubu-winner-of-the-2023-presidential-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/03\/01\/inec-declares-ahmed-tinubu-winner-of-the-2023-presidential-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC Declares Ahmed Tinubu Winner Of The 2023 Presidential Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election Wednesday morning at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The APC candidate polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat fellow contenders \u2013 Atiku Abubakar of the opposition People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) who polled 6,984,520 votes, Labour Party\u2019s Peter Obi had 6,101,533 votes to come third and candidate of the New Nigeria People\u2019s Party (NNPP) Rabiu Kwankwaso with 1,496,687 votes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Of the 36 states and FCT, Tinubu, Obi, and Atiku won 12 states each, while Kwankwaso won only Kano State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">One of his supporters, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, expressed excitement and reassured Nigerians that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a good man and would be Nigeria\u2019s best President.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">More Details to come<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election Wednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}