President Bola Tinubu has secured a landslide victory in the presidential primary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), overwhelmingly defeating his sole challenger, businessman Stanley Osifo, in the nationwide direct primary conducted across the country’s 8,809 wards.
The results, announced on Sunday by the returning officer of the APC Presidential Primary Election, Pius Anyim, during the collation exercise at the Bola Tinubu International Conference Centre, Abuja, showed the incumbent president dominating the contest across virtually all states of the federation.
Mr Tinubu polled a total of 10,999, 162 votes, while Mr Osifo secured only 16,503 votes nationwide, recording zero or negligible votes in several states.
Out of a total of 12,643,306 registered voters in the party, 11,069,756 members were accredited for the exercise, while 11,015,665 eventually cast their votes during the nationwide direct primary.
The primary election, held on Saturday, 23 May, was supervised by governors and senior party officials appointed by the APC as state collation officers.
