Tinubu clears Ekiti with 201,486 votes, Atiku 89,554, Obi 11,397

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has been declared the winner of presidential poll in Ekiti State.

The Presiding Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission for Ekiti State, Professor Akeem Lasisi, declared the former two-term Lagos State Governor winner of the election in all the 16 councils in Ekiti State.

Lasisi, of the Osun State University, Osogbo, said Tinubu scored 201,486 votes to emerge the winner of the election, while his closest rival and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar polled 89,554 votes.

The Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, scored 11,397 votes.

While Tinubu and former Vice President Abubakar scored over 25 per cent of the total votes cast, Obi, a former two-term Governor of Anambra State, did not.